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Word | Spendthrift |
recklessly wasteful; prodigal in their expenditures / recklessly wasteful / Prodigal / someone who wastes money / a person who spends money in an extravagant, irresponsible way. / a person who spends money in a careless or wasteful way, | |
Usage | ⇒ Easy access to credit encourages people to turn into spendthrifts who shop till they drop. ⇒ the spendthrift managed to blow all of his inheritance in a single year ⇒ Working for a multinational and being the spendthrift that he is, he doesn't have the money to buy a laptop for himself, at least not a brand new laptop. |
Synonyms | prodigal, profligate, extravagant, wastrel, wasteful, spender, waster, improvident, squanderer, lavish, profuse, squandering, spend-all, excessive, imprudent, overgenerous, scattergood, thriftless, big spender, carouser, |
Antonyms | cheap, economical, miser, provident, sparing, careful, economizing, frugal, meager, parsimonious, stingy, thrifty, miserly, niggardly, penurious, prudent, spare, tight, tightfisted, cautious, |
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