| Main Entry: | waster |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spendthrift |
Synonyms: |
prodigal, profligate, wastrel |
| Main Entry: | barren |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unable to support growth |
Synonyms: |
arid, depleted, desert, desolate, dry, effete, empty, fallow, fruitless, impotent, impoverished, infecund, infertile, parched, sterile, unbearing, uncultivable, unfertile, unfruitful, unproductive, waste |
Antonyms: |
developing, fecund, fertile, filled, full, growing, productive, useful |
| Main Entry: | desert |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | barren, uncultivated |
Synonyms: |
arid, bare, desolate, infertile, lonely, solitary, sterile, uninhabited, unproductive, untilled, waste, wild |
| Notes: | that impoverished stretch of sand called a desert can only afford one 's'; that rich gooey extra thing at the end of the meal called a dessert indulges in two of them |
Antonyms: |
cultivated, fertile, productive |
| Main Entry: | desolate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unused, barren |
Synonyms: |
abandoned, bare, bleak, derelict, desert, destroyed, dreary, empty, forsaken, godforsaken, isolated, lonely, lonesome, lorn, ruined, solitary, unfrequented, uninhabited, unoccupied, vacant, waste, wild |
Antonyms: |
cultivated, populated, used |
| Main Entry: | empty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | containing nothing |
Synonyms: |
abandoned, bare, barren, blank, clear, dead, deflated, depleted, desert, deserted, desolate, despoiled, destitute, devoid, dry, evacuated, exhausted, forsaken, godforsaken, hollow, lacking, stark, unfilled, unfurnished, uninhabited, unoccupied, vacant, vacated, vacuous, void, wanting, waste |
Antonyms: |
complete, entire, filled, full, replete, sated, satisfied |
| Main Entry: | good-for-nothing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is idle, worthless |
Synonyms: |
bad lot, black sheep, bum, loafer, ne'er-do-well, no-good, profligate, rapscallion, scalawag, scamp, tramp, vagabond, waster, wastrel |
Antonyms: |
hard worker |
| Main Entry: | idle |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not used; out of action |
Synonyms: |
abandoned, asleep, barren, closed down, dead, deserted, down, dusty, empty, gathering dust, inactive, inert, jobless, laid-off, leisured, mothballed, motionless, on the bench, on the shelf, out of operation, out of work, passive, quiet, redundant, resting, rusty, sleepy, stationary, still, uncultivated, unemployed, unoccupied, untouched, unused, vacant, void, waste, workless |
Antonyms: |
active, busy, employed, productive, used, working |
| Main Entry: | lifeless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not living, not containing living things |
Synonyms: |
asleep, bare, barren, brute, cold, comatose, dead, deceased, defunct, departed, desert, empty, exanimate, extinct, faint, inanimate, inert, inorganic, insensate, insensible, late, out cold, sterile, unconscious, uninhabited, waste |
Antonyms: |
alive, animate, living |
| Main Entry: | loafer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is idle, lazy |
Synonyms: |
beachcomber, deadbeat, do-nothing, good-for-nothing, goof-off, idler, lazybones, lounger, malingerer, ne'er-do-well, shirker, slacker, slouch, sluggard, sponger, wanderer, waster, wastrel |
Antonyms: |
hard worker |
| Main Entry: | prodigal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who spends a lot |
Synonyms: |
big spender, compulsive shopper, deep pockets, dissipator, high roller, profligate, spender, spendthrift, sport, squanderer, waster, wastrel |