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Webster 1913 Edition
Wastrel
Wast′rel
,Noun.
1.
Any waste thing or substance
; as: (a)
Waste land or common land.
[Obs.]
Carew.
(b)
A profligate.
[Prov. Eng.]
(c)
A neglected child; a street Arab.
[Eng.]
2.
Anything cast away as bad or useless, as imperfect bricks, china, etc.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Wastrel
WASTREL
,Noun.
Definition 2024
wastrel
wastrel
English
Noun
wastrel (plural wastrels)
- (dated) One who is profligate, who wastes time or resources extravagantly.
- 1929, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 22
- Mary's mother - if that was her picture - may have been a wastrel in her spare time (she had thirteen children by a minister of the church), but if so her gay and dissipated life had left too few traces of its pleasures on her face.
- 1929, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 22
Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:spendthrift