thriftless
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8.5
- adjective
- /ˈθrɪftləs/
- The company's thriftless decisions led to financial problems and layoffs.
Examples
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He lost most of his savings because of his thriftless spending habits.
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Working 12 hours a day, going hungry, alone and afraid because your father, who is supposed to care for you, is so utterly thriftless!
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Nothing can pry them away from that; the city is what they want it to be: thriftless, warm, scary, and full of amiable strangers.
Fiction book (1992) -
They proposed "steady, well-supervised work" in order to reverse the former slaves' tendency "to be idle and thriftless."
Academic text (2004) -
Her thriftless lifestyle caused her to struggle to pay her bills each month.
Synonyms
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8.2
A person who likes to buy expensive things
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9.0
Spending money or using things in a wasteful way
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8.6
Not careful with money, spending more than needed
Antonyms
How Thrifty
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word thriftless comes from thrift + -less, where thrift once meant 'prosperity' and is related to thrive ('to grow or do well'), and -less means 'without'. So thriftless means 'without careful saving' or 'careless with money or resources'.