waster
/ˈweɪstə/
waster noun: someone or something that wastes; someone who squanders or spends extravagantly.
Noun (1)
waster (plural wasters)
- Someone or something that wastes; someone who squanders or spends extravagantly.
- Synonyms:
- big spender, dingthrift, neve, overspender, prodigal, profligate, saprophage, scattergood, slipstring, slipthrift
- An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste.
- Synonyms:
- thief
- A destroyer or plunderer.
- He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 18:9
- An item that is spoiled during its manufacture.
- Unless the cast was very hot indeed, the steel would refuse to ascend, and a great many wasters were caused thereby.1895, Richard Smith-Casson, “Small Cast Steel Ingots”, in Transactions of the Iron and Steel Institute, volume 46, page 215
- An idle, worthless person; a loser.
- I don't want a total waster and I'm definitely not looking for a hook-up, but I really do need an okay date. Someone normal. Someone I can introduce to family and friends […]2024, Laura Carter, Fake It 'til You Make It
Noun (2)
waster (plural wasters)
- A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil.
- Or, as they that play at wasters exercise themselves by a few cudgels how to avoid an enemy's blows, let us arm ourselves against all such violent incursions which may invade our minds.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II...
- A leister; a spear for catching fish.
waster meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Assamese
waster in Urdu
- ضائع کرنے والا, فضول خرچنے والا, برباد کرنے والا
waster in Malayalam
- loafer, idler, good-for-nothing
- ദുർവ്യയക്കാരൻ, ധൂർത്തൻ, ധൂർത്തപുത്രൻ, ദീപാളിക്കാരൻ, പാഴ്ച്ചെലവുകാരൻ, ധാരാളി
waster in Assamese
- waster, spendthrift, prodigal
- খৰচী khorosi
Synonyms of waster
- big spender
- overspender
- prodigal
- profligate
- saprophage
- spendthrift
- splurge
- splurger
- squanderer
- thief
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Forms of waster
| plural | wasters |
|---|---|
| alternative form | wastor |
| alternative form | wastour |
Origin of waster
From Middle English wastere, waister, wastar, wastour, equivalent to waste + -er. Compare Anglo-Norman wastur, Old French gastëor.
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Questions about waster
- What does waster mean?
- Waster means someone or something that wastes; someone who squanders or spends extravagantly.
- What is waster in Urdu?
- Waster in Urdu is ضائع کرنے والا, فضول خرچنے والا, برباد کرنے والا. See Waster meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is waster?
- Waster is a noun.
- How do you pronounce waster?
- Waster is pronounced /ˈweɪstə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of waster?
- The plural of waster is wasters.
Words near waster in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: waster (page history and authors); waster (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); waster (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); খৰচী (Assamese) (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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