Synonyms of dissipating

dissipating 1 of 3

adjective

as in wasting

Related Words

• wasting
• wasteful
• squandering
• profligate
• frittering
• spendthrift
• prodigal
• splurging
• magnanimous
• unthrifty
• kindly
• benevolent
• compassionate
• thriftless
• hospitable
• profuse
• philanthropic
• openhearted
• beneficent
• humanitarian
• extravagant
• overgenerous
• good-hearted
• lavish
• selfless
• unselfish
• altruistic
• unstinting
• greathearted
• openhanded
• bountiful
• handsome
• bounteous
• free
• generous
• charitable
• liberal
• munificent
• unsparing
• freehanded

Dissimilar Words

• spare
• sparing
• close
• pinching
• cheap
• tight
• saving
• mean
• conserving
• parsimonious
• miserly
• stingy
• uncharitable
• ungenerous
• careful
• tightfisted
• economical
• penurious
• chintzy
• closefisted
• stinting
• chary
• small
• mingy
• frugal
• thrifty
• penny-pinching
• pinchpenny
• grasping
• desirous
• economizing
• selfish
• avaricious
• acquisitive
• greedy
• rapacious
• shabby
• sordid
• skimping
• hoggish
• covetous
• scrimping
• avid
• itchy
• mercenary
• coveting

dissipating

2 of 3

noun

as in squandering

Related Words

• squandering
• spendthrift
• wastefulness
• extravagance
• improvidence
• tribute
• prodigality
• lavishness
• gift
• kindness
• selflessness
• gratuity
• generosity
• beneficence
• openhandedness
• liberality
• unselfishness
• munificence
• kindliness
• lagniappe
• largesse
• bounty
• bountifulness
• philanthropy
• charity
• generousness
• openheartedness
• bigheartedness

Dissimilar Words

• economy
• tightness
• selfishness
• pinching
• saving
• conserving
• closeness
• meanness
• cheapness
• stinginess
• conservation
• economizing
• managing
• thrift
• parsimony
• miserliness
• providence
• frugality
• husbandry
• scraping
• skimping
• husbanding
• ungenerosity
• penuriousness
• scrimping
• cutting back

dissipating

3 of 3

verb

present participle of dissipate

1

as in dispersing

to cause (members of a group) to move widely apart

dissipated the enemy forces with unremitting artillery fire

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dispersing
• scattering
• dispelling
• squandering
• isolating
• disbanding
• segregating
• diffusing
• separating
• splitting (up)
• disseminating
• clearing out
• spreading
• parting
• diverging
• breaking up

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• collecting
• concentrating
• assembling
• gathering
• clustering
• congregating
• agglutinating
• uniting
• ingathering
• unifying
• conglomerating

2

as in spending

to use up carelessly

dissipated the family fortune in reckless business ventures

Synonyms & Similar Words

• spending
• losing
• wasting
• squandering
• blowing
• running through
• throwing away
• lavishing
• trifling (away)
• misspending
• consuming
• depleting
• frittering (away)
• fiddling away
• playing ducks and drakes with
• exhausting
• disbursing
• impoverishing
• expending
• indulging
• overspending
• splurging
• overindulging
• shooting
• laying out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• conserving
• protecting
• preserving
• economizing
• saving
• skimping
• hoarding
• scrimping
• laying up

3

as in dissolving

to go off in different directions and cease to exist as a body or unified whole

the fog should dissipate once the sun comes out in full force

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dispersing
• dissolving
• disappearing
• fading
• scattering
• evaporating
• disassembling
• melting
• dividing
• spilling
• diverging
• disbanding
• separating
• forking
• fleeing
• branching (out)
• going (away)
• clearing
• breaking up
• evanescing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• meeting
• gathering
• congregating

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of dissipating

Noun

Between these times, every stage moves from fullness and being a light to finding your light dissipating and toward the crescent. — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 5 Jan. 2026

Hubble’s more recent imagery shows the dissipating remains of the smash encounter. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 18 Dec. 2025

Verb

If mass transfer occurs too early, say millions of years before the final supernova blast, the team found that the material spreads far away from the binary stars, dissipating the surrounding cocoon. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 8 July 2026

In front of a predominantly Brazilian crowd and with the haze of a pre-match pyrotechnic display still dissipating, Norway seemed to leap out to a lead in the first few minutes with a goal by Patrick Berg, but it was quickly ruled offside. — Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 5 July 2026

Cristina dumped rain across Central America late last week before dissipating. — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 15 June 2026

Worries are accelerating that the burst of inflation is broadening, as the jump in oil prices starts to spread through the economy and raise expectations that inflation isn’t dissipating anytime soon. — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 9 June 2026

In distributing these weak linkages throughout a material like polystyrene, the mechanophores split in two as a crack begins to propagate, successfully redirecting the crack and dissipating the destructive energy. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 3 June 2026

The structure brings visitors below ground, from lightness to darkness, with sounds slowly dissipating. — Solvej Schou, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2026

The crowd thinned as clouds of dust headed toward Brickell Avenue before dissipating, revealing a sunny, blue sky. — Miami Herald, 13 Apr. 2026

At least, the tension between Jenna and Eddy is dissipating. — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2026