Adjective: spendthrift 'spend,thrift
- Recklessly wasteful
"spendthrift in their expenditures";
- extravagant, prodigal, profligate
- Someone who spends money prodigally
"The lottery winner quickly became a spendthrift, blowing through his fortune in just a few years";
- spend-all, spender, scattergood [archaic]
Derived forms: spendthrifts
See also: wasteful
Type of: prodigal, profligate, squanderer
Encyclopedia: Spendthrift