Spendthrift

Spend′thriftˊ

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Noun.

One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively.

A woman who was a generous

spendthrift

of life.

Mrs. R. H. Davis.

Spend′thrift

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Adj.

Prodigal; extravagant; wasteful.

Spendthrift

SPEND'THRIFT

,

Noun.

[spend and thrift.] One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes his estate.

spendthrift

English

Adjective

spendthrift ‎(comparative more spendthrift, superlative most spendthrift)

Wasteful, improvident or profligate.
Lavish or extravagant.

Translations

wasteful, improvident, profligate

Chinese:
Mandarin: 挥霍无度 (zh) ‎(huīhuòwúdù)
Czech: utrácivý, rozmařilý
Finnish: tuhlaavainen

German: verschwenderisch (de)
Portuguese: gastador (pt)
Russian: расточительный (ru) ‎(rastočitelʹnyj)
Turkish: müsrif (tr), savurgan (tr)

lavish, extravagant

Czech: hojný, opulentní (cs)
Finnish: ylenpalttinen

Tagalog: buyangyang

Noun

spendthrift ‎(plural spendthrifts)

Someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully.

Synonyms

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Antonyms

Derived terms

spendthrift trust

Translations

someone who spends money wastefully

Arabic: مُبَذِّر m ‎(mubaḏḏir)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 敗家子 (zh), 败家子 (zh) ‎(bàijiāzǐ), 浪子 (zh) ‎(làngzǐ)
Czech: hýřil m, rozmařilec m, marnotratník m
Estonian: raharaiskaja
Finnish: tuhlari (fi)
French: dépensier (fr), gaspilleur (fr), prodigue (fr)
German: Verschwender m, Verschwenderin f, Prasser m, Prasserin f
Greek: σπάταλος (el) ‎(spátalos)
Icelandic: eyðslukló (is) f
Italian: spendaccione m
Japanese: 使い手 ‎(つかいて, tsukaite), 浪費家 ‎(ろうひか, rōhika)

Norman: dêpensyi m, gaspilleux m, saccageux m, trébuque-bein m
Polish: rozrzutnik m
Portuguese: gastador (pt) m
Russian: расточи́тель (ru) m ‎(rastočítelʹ), мот (ru) m ‎(mot), транжи́р (ru) m ‎(tranžír)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: распикућа

Roman: raspikuća (sh)
Spanish: gastador m, gastadora (es) f, pródigo (es) m
Swedish: spenderbyxa c, slösare c
Tagalog: labusak
Turkish: müsrif (tr), savurgan (tr)

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