SPENDTHRIFT

Spendthrift

A spendthrift is someone who spends money prodigiously and who is extravagant and recklessly wasteful, often to a point where the spending climbs well beyond his or her means. The word derives from an obsolete sense of the word "thrift" to mean prosperity rather than frugality, so that a "spendthrift" is one who has spent their prosperity.

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spendthrift

Noun

  1. Someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully.

Adjective

spendthrift

  1. Wasteful, improvident or profligate.
  2. Lavish or extravagant.


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