Synonyms for waster
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Wastrel — someone or something that wastes; someone who squanders or spends extravagantly
spendthrift, prodigal, profligate, squanderer, wastrel dated
Definitions
- n. 1
Someone or something that wastes; someone who squanders or spends extravagantly.
- n. 2
An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste.
Related words
- Phrases
- oxygen waster
- Other spellings
- wastor wastour
Forms
- Plural
- wasters → spendthrifts, prodigals, profligates, squanderers…
Example sentences
- profligate He was a drunkard and a profligate.
- destroyer Shepard served on a destroyer during World War II.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| waster | steady | |
| profligate | steady | |
| squanderer | steady | |
| destroyer | steady | |
| ruiner | steady | |
| lister | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- thief1
- 6 letters
- lister2, ruiner, preyer2
- 7 letters
- wastrel
- 8 letters
- prodigal3, uprooter
- 9 letters
- destroyer3
- 10 letters
- profligate3, squanderer
- 11 letters
- spendthrift2
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (lister2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- gaspilleur