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Word Meanings - SPENDTHRIFTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Spendthrift; prodigal.

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  • PRODIGALLY
    In a prodigal manner; with profusion of expense; extravagantly; wasteful; profusely; lavishly; as, an estate prodigally dissipated. Nature not bounteous now, but lavish grows; Our paths with flowers she prodigally strows. Dryden.
  • SPENDTHRIFT
    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.
  • SPENDTHRIFTY
    Spendthrift; prodigal.
  • PRODIGAL
    Given to extravagant expenditure; expending money or other things without necessity; recklessly or viciously profuse; lavish; wasteful; not frugal or economical; as, a prodigal man; the prodigal son; prodigal giving; prodigal expenses. In fighting
  • PRODIGALITY
    Extravagance in expenditure, particularly of money; excessive liberality; profusion; waste; -- opposed to frugality, economy, and parsimony."The prodigality of his wit." Dryden.
  • PRODIGALIZE
    To act as a prodigal; to spend liberally. Sherwood.

 

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