The girl had grown up without any money and when she married she became a spendthrift.
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Spendthrift
//ˈspɛn(d)θɹɪft//
Synonyms for "spendthrift" (53 found)
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Closest matches (11)
Noun(4 words)
Adjective(1 words)
Strong matches (16)
Related words (26)
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4 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
1 entriescapable of
1 entriesderived
6 entriesderived from
2 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
8 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
102 translations across 37 languages.
Arabic
4 entries- مُبَذِّر adj (improvident, profligate, or wasteful)
- مُسْرِف adj (improvident, profligate, or wasteful)
- مُبَذِّر noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
- مُسْرِف noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
Bulgarian
3 entries- прахоснически adj (improvident, profligate, or wasteful)
- разточителен adj (improvident, profligate, or wasteful)
- прахосник noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 敗家仔 /败家仔 noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 挥霍无度 adj (improvident, profligate, or wasteful)
- 敗家子 /败家子 noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
- 浪子 noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
Chuvash
1 entries- якатмӑш noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
Czech
4 entries- hojný adj (extravagant, lavish)
- opulentní adj (extravagant, lavish)
- rozmařilý adj (improvident, profligate, or wasteful)
- utrácivý adj (improvident, profligate, or wasteful)
Danish
1 entries- ødsel adj (improvident, profligate, or wasteful)
Dutch
3 entries- spilziek adj (improvident, profligate, or wasteful)
- verkwistend adj (improvident, profligate, or wasteful)
- verspillend adj (improvident, profligate, or wasteful)
Estonian
1 entries- raharaiskaja noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
Finnish
4 entries- tuhlaavainen adj (improvident, profligate, or wasteful)
- ylenpalttinen adj (extravagant, lavish)
- hassaaja noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
- tuhlaaja noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
French
4 entries- dépensier adj (improvident, profligate, or wasteful)
- prodigue adj (improvident, profligate, or wasteful)
- dépensier noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
- gaspilleur noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
Galician
2 entries- desbaldidor adj (improvident, profligate, or wasteful)
- desbaldidora adj (improvident, profligate, or wasteful)
German
4 entries- verschwenderisch adj (improvident, profligate, or wasteful)
- Prasser noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
- Prasserin noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
- Verschwender noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
Greek
1 entries- σπάταλος noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
Hebrew
1 entries- פַּזְרָן adj (improvident, profligate, or wasteful)
Hungarian
3 entries- költekező adj (improvident, profligate, or wasteful)
- pazar adj (extravagant, lavish)
- pazarló adj (improvident, profligate, or wasteful)
Icelandic
1 entries- eyðslukló noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
Indonesian
1 entries- berfoya-foya adj (improvident, profligate, or wasteful)
Italian
1 entries- spendaccione noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
Japanese
3 entries- 使い手 noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
- 極道 noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
- 浪費家 noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
Khmer
1 entries- ចាយវាយ adj (improvident, profligate, or wasteful)
Latin
2 entries- consumptor noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
- prōflīgātor noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
Macedonian
2 entries- раси́пнички adj (improvident, profligate, or wasteful)
- ра́сипник noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
Malayalam
1 entries- ധൂർത്തൻ adj (improvident, profligate, or wasteful)
Norman
4 entries- dêpensyi noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
- gaspilleux noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
- saccageux noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
- trébuque-bein noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
Persian
3 entries- تَلَفکار adj (improvident, profligate, or wasteful)
- خَراج adj (improvident, profligate, or wasteful)
- ولخرج noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Spendobbel noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
Polish
4 entries- hojny adj (extravagant, lavish)
- rozrzutny adj (improvident, profligate, or wasteful)
- suty adj (extravagant, lavish)
- rozrzutnica noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
Portuguese
4 entries- gastador adj (improvident, profligate, or wasteful)
- gastadeira noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
- gastador noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
- gastadora noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
Russian
4 entries- расточительный adj (improvident, profligate, or wasteful)
- мот noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
- расточи́тель noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
- транжи́р noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- raspikuća noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
- распикућа noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
Spanish
4 entries- manirroto adj (improvident, profligate, or wasteful)
- pródigo adj (improvident, profligate, or wasteful)
- gastador noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
- gastadora noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
Swedish
2 entries- slösare noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
- spenderbyxa noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
Tagalog
2 entries- buyangyang adj (extravagant, lavish)
- labusak noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
Tamil
1 entries- ஊதாரி noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
Turkish
4 entries- müsrif adj (improvident, profligate, or wasteful)
- savurgan adj (improvident, profligate, or wasteful)
- çarçurcu adj (improvident, profligate, or wasteful)
- müsrif noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
Yoruba
2 entries- arungún noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
- àpà noun (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
Mary is a spendthrift when it comes to money.
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Tom is a spendthrift.
Source: tatoeba (8217596)
Wel, go to wild oats, ſpend thrift prodigal, / Ile croſſe thy name quight from my reckning booke: / For theſe accounts, faith it ſhall ſcath thee ſome what, / I will not ſay what, ſomewhat it ſhall be.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.