Thesaurus:spendthrift
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]Sense: person who spends recklessly or wastefully
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- big spender
- dingthrift (obsolete)
- neve (rare)
- overspender
- prodigal [⇒ thesaurus]
- profligate
- saprophage
- scattergood (obsolete)
- slipstring (obsolete)
- slipthrift (obsolete)
- sparkler (dated)
- spend-all (dated)
- spendthrift
- splurge
- splurger
- squanderer
- unthrift (rare)
- waster
- wastegood (obsolete)
- wastethrift (obsolete)
- wastrel (dated)
Antonyms
[edit]- cheapskate
- miser [⇒ thesaurus]
- niggard
- skinflint
- tightwad
- —
- frugalist
- husband [⇒ thesaurus] (archaic)
Hypernyms
[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “818. prodigality” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “spendthrift” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.