waster
Meanings
Plural: wasters
Noun
- someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently
- a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to
- Someone or something that wastes; someone who squanders or spends extravagantly.
- An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste.
- A destroyer or plunderer.
- An item that is spoiled during its manufacture.
- A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil.
- A leister; a spear for catching fish.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English wastere, waister, wastar, wastour, equivalent to waste + -er. Compare Anglo-Norman wastur, Old French gastëor.
Synonyms
big spender, destroyer, dingthrift, neve, overspender, prodigal, profligate, ruiner, saprophage, scattergood, slipstring, slipthrift, sparkler, spend-all, spendthrift, splurge, splurger, squanderer, thief, undoer, unthrift, uprooter, wastegood, waster, wastethrift, wastrel
Scrabble Score: 9
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