squandering - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | squander |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fritter away, use up |
| Synonyms: | blow*, consume, dissipate, expend, go through, lavish, misspend, misuse, put out*, run through, scatter, spend, throw away, trifle, waste, be prodigal with, be wasteful, cash out, frivol, frivol away, prodigalize, spend like water, spring for, throw money around |
| Antonyms: | hoard, save, set aside |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | extravagance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indulgence; waste |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, amenity, dissipation, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expenditure, folly, frill, improvidence, lavishness, luxury, overindulgence, preposterousness, profusion, recklessness, squander, superfluity, icing on the cake, immoderation, outrageousness, overdoing, overspending, prodigality, profligacy, squandering, unreasonableness, unrestraint, unthrift, wastefulness, wildness |
| Antonyms: | economy, moderation, providence, saving, thrift, thriftiness |
| Main Entry: | loss |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misfortune, deficit; something misplaced or lost |
| Synonyms: | accident, bad luck, bereavement, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, cost, damage, death, debit, debt, defeat, deficiency, depletion, deprivation, destitution, destruction, detriment, disadvantage, disappearance, disaster, failure, fall, fatality, forfeiture, harm, hurt, injury, losing, misadventure, mishap, need, perdition, privation, ruin, sacrifice, shrinkage, trial, trouble, undoing, want, waste, wreckage, dispossession, impairment, mislaying, misplacing, retardation, squandering |
| Antonyms: | accomplishment, achievement, success, win |
| Main Entry: | misuse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abuse; wrong application |
| Synonyms: | barbarism, corruption, desecration, dissipation, exploitation, harm, injury, maltreatment, perversion, prostitution, solecism, waste, abusage, catachresis, cruel treatment, ill-treatment, malapropism, misapplication, misemployment, mistreatment, misusage, profanation, rough handling, squandering |
| Notes: | abuse carries with it some sense of harm; misuse refers to an incorrect use that may not lead to harm to misuse is to use something wrongly, to abuse is to misuse something so badly that you damage it |
| Main Entry: | wasteful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not economical |
| Synonyms: | careless, cavalier, destructive, extravagant, immoderate, improvident, incontinent, lavish, liberal, overdone, prodigal, profligate, profuse, reckless, ruinous, spendthrift, wanton, wild, dissipative, overgenerous, pound-foolish, squandering, thriftless, uneconomical, unthrifty |
| Antonyms: | economical, thrifty, unwasteful |
| Main Entry: | prodigal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wasteful |
| Synonyms: | dissipated, excessive, extravagant, immoderate, improvident, intemperate, lavish, profligate, reckless, spendthrift, wanton, squandering |
| Antonyms: | careful, thrifty |
| Main Entry: | waste |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spending, use without thought |
| Synonyms: | decay, desolation, destruction, devastation, dilapidation, dissipation, disuse, exhaustion, expenditure, extravagance, fritter*, havoc, improvidence, lavishness, loss, misuse, ravage, ruin, squander, lost opportunity, misapplication, overdoing, prodigality, squandering, unthriftiness, wastage, wastefulness |
| Antonyms: | saving, hoarding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lavishness |
| Part of Speech: | noun1 |
| Definition: | extravagance |
| Synonyms: | dissipation, indulgence, squandering, wastefulness |
| Main Entry: | dissipation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wantonness |
| Synonyms: | debauchery, dissolution, drunkenness, evil, excess, extravagance, indulgence, intemperance, lavishness, waste, abandonment, dissoluteness, free-living, high-living, life in the fast lane, prodigality, profligacy, self-gratification, squandering, to hell in handbasket |
| Antonyms: | unselfishness, virtue |
| Main Entry: | profligate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wasteful |
| Synonyms: | extravagant, immoderate, improvident, lavish, prodigal, reckless, spendthrift, squandering |
| Antonyms: | careful, saving |
| Main Entry: | abuse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | use wrongly |
| Synonyms: | dissipate, exhaust, mishandle, misuse, overburden, overwork, prostitute, spoil, squander, taint, waste, misemploy, overtax |
| Antonyms: | benefit, esteem, prize, respect, revere, care for |
| Main Entry: | blow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | use up money |
| Synonyms: | dissipate, lay out, spend, squander, waste, pay out |
| Antonyms: | save |
| Main Entry: | consume |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | use up |
| Synonyms: | absorb, apply, deplete, devour, dissipate, dominate, drain, drivel, eat up, employ, engross, exhaust, expend, finish, go, go through, lavish, lessen, monopolize, obsess, put away, run through, spend, squander, throw away, trifle, utilize, vanish, waste, wear out, avail oneself of, finish up, fritter away, frivol away, have recourse to, preoccupy, profit by, put to use, run out of, wash up |
| Antonyms: | accumulate, collect, gather, neglect, store, not use |
| Main Entry: | deplete |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | consume, exhaust supply |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, bleed*, decrease, diminish, drain, draw, empty, evacuate, expend, finish, impoverish, lessen, milk*, reduce, sap, spend, squander, undermine, waste, weaken, dig into, dry up, suck dry, use up, wash up |
| Antonyms: | add, augment, expand, fill, give, increase |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dissipate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | expend, spend |
| Synonyms: | blow*, consume, deplete, dump*, lavish, misspend, misuse, run through, squander, throw away, waste, be wasteful with, burn up*, fritter away, indulge oneself, kiss goodbye, trifle away, use up |
| Antonyms: | accumulate, collect, gather, hoard, save |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | eat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | erode, wear away; use up |
| Synonyms: | bite, condense, corrode, crumble, decay, decompose, disappear, disintegrate, dissipate, dissolve, drain, exhaust, gnaw, liquefy, melt, nibble, rot, run through, rust, spill, squander, vanish, waste away |
| Antonyms: | build, maintain, preserve |
| Main Entry: | exhaust |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | consume, use up |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, deplete, devour, dispel, disperse, dissipate, drain, draw, dry, eat, eat up*, empty, expend, finish, impoverish, run out, run through, spend, squander, strain, void, waste, bleed dry, suck dry, take last of, wash up |
| Antonyms: | refresh, replenish |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fritter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | waste away |
| Synonyms: | blow*, consume, dally, dissipate, go through*, idle, lavish, misspend, run through*, squander, throw away, trifle, be wasteful with, cast away, diddle away, frivol, spend like water |
| Antonyms: | hold, save, store |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | go |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | die, collapse |
| Synonyms: | bend, break, cave, conclude, consume, crumble, decease, decline, demise, depart, deplete, devour, dissipate, drop, exhaust, expend, expire, fail, finish, fritter, give, pass away*, perish, run through*, spend, squander, succumb, terminate, waste, weaken, worsen, yield, fold up, pass on, use up |
| Antonyms: | create, be born |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | go through |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | use up |
| Synonyms: | consume, deplete, exhaust, spend, squander, pay out |
| Antonyms: | hoard, save, store |
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