waster
Plural: wasters
Noun
- One who wastes.
- someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently
- a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to
- Someone or something that wastes; someone who squanders or spends extravagantly.
- An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste.
- A destroyer or plunderer.
- An item that is spoiled during its manufacture.
- A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil.
- A leister; a spear for catching fish.
Examples
- He became a notorious waster of bonus squares, often missing easy opportunities.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English wastere, waister, wastar, wastour, equivalent to waste + -er. Compare Anglo-Norman wastur, Old French gastëor.
Synonyms
destroyer, ruiner, undoer, uprooter, wastrel, big spender, dingthrift, neve, overspender, prodigal, profligate, saprophage, scattergood, slipstring, slipthrift, sparkler, spend-all, spendthrift, splurge, splurger, squanderer, thief, unthrift, wastegood, waster, wastethrift
Scrabble Score: 9
waster: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordwaster: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
waster: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary