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

Rinsing also cools down the seed, dissipating heat that builds up from the sprouting seeds. — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 14 Sep. 2026

Dull spells and lulls will crop up, building like waves, peaking, crashing, then dissipating. — Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 11 Sep. 2026

As a result, each shell collapses sequentially, gradually absorbing and dissipating the kinetic energy. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2026

Others are content simply to provoke a few smiles, before dissipating like smoke with the very next breeze. — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026

The Cage felt like a useful spot to work out any resentments lingering in your psyche, all the old grievances dissipating with the clang of aluminum on cowhide. — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026

With time dissipating memories of Lahti’s final days, there are few living people left to put into context the rumors of the bar fight, and even a less likely chance that the assailant is still alive. — Taylor Romine, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2026

Parton was the standard-bearer of a dissipating breed of superstar. — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026

If a black hole had a secret identity as an imperfect, energy-dissipating, viscous fluid, then an effective field theory for imperfect, energy-dissipating, viscous fluids should exist, too. — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 17 Aug. 2026