Meaning

2 senses

  1. Improvident, profligate, or wasteful.

    verschwenderisch

    расточительныйrastočitelʹnyj

    recklessly wasteful

  2. Extravagant or lavish.

Examples

3 sentences

  1. Mary is a spendthrift when it comes to money.

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  2. Tom is a spendthrift.

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  3. The girl had grown up without any money and when she married she became a spendthrift.

    deDas Mädchen war ganz ohne Geld aufgewachsen, und nach ihrer Heirat wurde sie zur Verschwenderin. — Manfredo

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
improvident, profligate, or wasteful:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
improvident, profligate, or wasteful:

Origin

From spend + thrift (“(archaic) savings; profits; wealth”).

From spend + thrift (“(archaic) savings; profits; wealth”).

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Forms

more spendthrift, most spendthrift
Comparativemore spendthrift Lesson
Superlativemost spendthrift Lesson

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

2 antonyms
frugalB2thrifty

Lessons for this word

2 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
spencerspendA1spenderspermspermatozoonspew

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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