Usually means: Not growing or developing well.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. unthrifty: Merriam-Webster
  2. unthrifty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. unthrifty: Collins English Dictionary
  4. unthrifty: Wordnik
  5. unthrifty: Wiktionary
  6. Unthrifty, unthrifty: Dictionary.com
  7. Unthrifty: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. unthrifty: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Unthrifty: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. unthrifty: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. unthrifty: FreeDictionary.org
  12. unthrifty: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unthrifty: Legal dictionary

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Unthrifty: MedFriendly Glossary
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  3. Unthrifty: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (unthrifty)

▸ adjective:  Not thrifty: wasteful, extravagant; unproductive.

Similar:
unthrift, infrugal, unfrugal, unwasteful, unprovident, nonwasteful, unprofligate, unresourceful, unproductive, sparesome, more...

Opposite:
thrifty, frugal, economical, prudent

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Similar:
unthrift, infrugal, unfrugal, unwasteful, unprovident, nonwasteful, unprofligate, unresourceful, unproductive, sparesome, more...

Opposite:
thrifty, frugal, economical, prudent



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