Waster

Quick meaning: Waster is a noun meaning Someone or something that wastes; someone who squanders or spends extravagantly.

Meaning

Someone or something that wastes; someone who squanders or spends extravagantly.

More Meanings

1. An item that is spoiled during its manufacture.
2. (dialectal) An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste.
3. (obsolete) A destroyer or plunderer.
4. (obsolete, chiefly fencing) A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil.
5. (obsolete, Scotland) A leister; a spear for catching fish.

Example Sentences

He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.

Unless the cast was very hot indeed, the steel would refuse to ascend, and a great many wasters were caused thereby.

Or, as they that play at wasters exercise themselves by a few cudgels how to avoid an enemy's blows, let us arm ourselves against all such violent incursions which may invade our minds.

Word Forms

• wasters
• wastor
• wastour

Synonyms for waster

Depending on context, synonyms include dingthrift, neve, overspender, prodigal, profligate, saprophage.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wastrel, vandal, spender, lavisher, emptier, worrier.

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