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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(obsolete, derogatory) One who consumes candles by staying up late reading and studying; a student..
If such a one will smile and stroke his beard, / And, sorrow wag, cry 'hem!' when he should groan, / Patch grief with proverbs, make misfortune drunk / With candle-wasters—bring him yet to me, / And I of him will gather patience.
Heart, was there ever so prosperous an invention thus unluckily perverted and spoiled by a whoreson book-worm, a candle-waster?
Use candlewaster when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Candlewaster means (obsolete, derogatory) One who consumes candles by staying up late reading and studying; a student..
Common synonyms include scholar, student.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
If such a one will smile and stroke his beard, / And, sorrow wag, cry 'hem!' when he should groan, / Patch grief with proverbs, make misfortune drunk / With candle-wasters—bring him yet to me, / And I of him will gather patience.
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