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wastorel

wastorel is the obsolete form of wastrel.

Meaning of wastrel

Noun

wastrel (countable and uncountable, plural wastrels)

  1. (countable, dated) One who is profligate, who wastes time or resources extravagantly.
    • And so with one thing and other the auld witch raised the fiends of jealousy in that innocent heart. She would cry out that Heriotside was an ill-doing wastrel, and had no business to come and flatter honest lassies.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
  2. (countable, obsolete) A neglected child.
  3. (obsolete, uncountable) Refuse; rubbish.

Forms of wastorel

pluralwastorels

Questions about wastorel

What is wastorel the obsolete form of?
Wastorel is the obsolete form of wastrel.

Words near wastorel in the dictionary

  1. wastness
  2. wastnesses
  3. wastoid
  4. wastoids
  5. wastor
  6. wastorel
  7. wastorels
  8. wastors
  9. wastour
  10. wastours
  11. wastrel

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wastorel (page history and authors); wastrel (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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