Usually means: Inefficient or unproductive person or thing.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. waster: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. waster: Merriam-Webster
  3. waster: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. waster: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. waster: Collins English Dictionary
  6. waster: Vocabulary.com
  7. Waster, waster: Wordnik
  8. waster: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. waster: Wiktionary
  10. waster: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. waster: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. waster: Dictionary.com
  13. Waster: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Waster: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. waster: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. waster: Rhymezone
  17. Waster: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. waster: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. waster: FreeDictionary.org
  20. waster: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. waster: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. waster: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Waster: Marquetry Glossary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. waster: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. waster: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. waster: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  Someone or something that wastes; someone who squanders or spends extravagantly.
▸ noun:  (dialectal) An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A destroyer or plunderer.
▸ noun:  An item that is spoiled during its manufacture.
▸ noun:  (obsolete, chiefly fencing) A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil.
▸ noun:  (obsolete, Scotland) A leister; a spear for catching fish.

Similar:
wastrel, vandal, spender, waste picker, lavisher, emptier, worrier, wagerer, economizer, ruiner, more...

Opposite:
saver, preserver, conserver

Types:
paper, plastic, glass, metal, electronic, more...

Phrases:
time waster, waster of time, gone to waster, more...

Adjectives:
great, time, biggest, young, major, drunken, real, idle, huge, mere, brutal



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Similar:
wastrel, vandal, spender, waste picker, lavisher, emptier, worrier, wagerer, economizer, ruiner, more...

Opposite:
saver, preserver, conserver

Types:
paper, plastic, glass, metal, electronic, more...

Phrases:
time waster, waster of time, gone to waster, more...

Adjectives:
great, time, biggest, young, major, drunken, real, idle, huge, mere, brutal



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