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thriftless

thriftless adjective: wastefully reckless in the use of money or resources.

Adjective

thriftless (comparative more thriftless, superlative most thriftless)

  1. Wastefully reckless in the use of money or resources.
  2. (dated) Not thriving.

thriftless meaning in Malayalam and Kannada

thriftless in Malayalam

spendthrift, extravagant, profligate
ധാരാളിയായ, ധൂർത്തനായ, ധാരാളിത്തമുള്ള, അമിതവ്യയിയായ, ദീപാളിക്കാരനായ, പണം വാരിക്കോരി ചെലവു ചെയ്യുന്ന

thriftless in Kannada

ದುಂದುವೆಚ್ಚದ, ಅಂದಾದುಂಧಿಯ, ಹಿಡಿತವಿಲ್ಲದ

Forms of thriftless

comparativemore thriftless
superlativemost thriftless

Origin of thriftless

From Middle English thrifteles, þriftles, equivalent to thrift + -less.

Words formed from thriftless

Questions about thriftless

What does thriftless mean?
Thriftless means wastefully reckless in the use of money or resources.
What is thriftless in Malayalam?
Thriftless in Malayalam is ധാരാളിയായ, ധൂർത്തനായ, ധാരാളിത്തമുള്ള. See Thriftless meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is thriftless?
Thriftless is an adjective.

Words near thriftless in the dictionary

  1. thriftiest
  2. thriftily
  3. thriftiness
  4. thriftinesses
  5. thrifting
  6. thriftless
  7. thriftlessly
  8. thriftlessness
  9. thriftly
  10. thrifts
  11. thriftshop

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: thriftless (page history and authors); thriftless (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); thriftless (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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