Usually means: Wastefully extravagant with money.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word Spendthrift:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. spendthrift: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. spendthrift: Merriam-Webster
  3. spendthrift: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. spendthrift: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. spendthrift: Collins English Dictionary
  6. spendthrift: Vocabulary.com
  7. Spendthrift, spendthrift: Wordnik
  8. spendthrift: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. spendthrift: Wiktionary
  10. spendthrift: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. spendthrift: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. spendthrift: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. spendthrift: Dictionary.com
  14. spendthrift: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. spendthrift: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Spendthrift (film), Spendthrift (horse), Spendthrift: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Spendthrift: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. spendthrift: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. spendthrift: Rhymezone
  20. Spendthrift: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. spendthrift: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Spendthrift: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. spendthrift: FreeDictionary.org
  24. spendthrift: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Spendthrift: The Word Detective
  26. spendthrift: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. Spendthrift: World Wide Words

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. spendthrift: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. spendthrift: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spendthrift: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. spendthrift: A Word A Day
  2. spendthrift: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Spendthrift: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (spendthrift)

▸ adjective:  Improvident, profligate, or wasteful.
▸ adjective:  Extravagant or lavish.
▸ noun:  Someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully.
▸ noun:  (figuratively) Anything that distributes its attributes profusely, without restraint.

Similar:
profligate, wasteful, prodigal, spend-all, spender, extravagant, spendthrifty, loose-handed, profligatory, spendful, more...

Opposite:
frugal, miserly, parsimonious

Types:
prodigal, extravagant, wasteful, foolish, more...

Phrases:
spendthrift trust, spendthrift trusts, spendthrift provision, spendthrift clause, opposite of spendthrift, more...

Adjectives:
young, reckless, ruined, great, profligate, notorious, little, idle, careless, foolish, worthless

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Similar:
profligate, wasteful, prodigal, spend-all, spender, extravagant, spendthrifty, loose-handed, profligatory, spendful, more...

Opposite:
frugal, miserly, parsimonious

Types:
prodigal, extravagant, wasteful, foolish, more...

Phrases:
spendthrift trust, spendthrift trusts, spendthrift provision, spendthrift clause, opposite of spendthrift, being spendthrift, more...

Adjectives:
young, reckless, ruined, great, profligate, notorious, little, idle, careless, foolish, worthless

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    gold,     silver,     emerald,     ruby,     sapphire, more...



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