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squandering

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of squandering

given to spending money freely or foolishly
  • the nightclub's ridiculous prices seem geared to squandering revelers with more money than sense
Synonyms of squandering

extravagant, high-rolling, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift, thriftless, unthrifty, wasteful
Words Related to squandering

improvident, myopic, shortsighted

bighearted, bountiful, charitable, freehanded, freehearted, generous, lavish, liberal, munificent, openhanded, openhearted, philanthropic (also philanthropical), unselfish, unsparing, unstinting

careless, heedless, imprudent, incautious, injudicious, unwise

indulgent, reckless, self-indulgent, splurging, wanton
Near Antonyms of squandering

cheap, close, closefisted, mean, miserly, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious, pinching, spare, sparing, stingy, stinting, tight, tightfisted

careful, judicious, prudent, sensible, wise

farsighted, forehanded, foreseeing, foresighted, forethoughtful, provident
Antonyms of squandering

conserving, economical, economizing, frugal, penny-pinching, scrimping, skimping, thrifty

squandering

verb , present participle of squander

Synonyms and Antonyms of squandering

1 to use up carelessly
  • squandered all her money gambling in casinos
Synonyms of squandering

blowing, dissipating, fiddling away, frittering (away), lavishing, losing, misspending, running through, spending, throwing away, trifling (away), wasting
Words Related to squandering

splurging

consuming, depleting, exhausting, impoverishing, overspending, shooting

indulging, overindulging

disbursing, expending, laying out
Phrases Synonymous with squandering

playing ducks and drakes with (or making ducks and drakes of)
Near Antonyms of squandering

economizing, scrimping, skimping

preserving, protecting, saving

hoarding, laying up
Antonyms of squandering

conserving
2 to cause (members of a group) to move widely apart
  • a single blast of the shotgun squandered the herd of deer
Synonyms of squandering

clearing out, disbanding, dispelling, dispersing, dissipating, scattering
Words Related to squandering

breaking up, isolating, parting, segregating, separating, splitting (up)

diffusing, disseminating, diverging, spreading
Near Antonyms of squandering

agglutinating, conglomerating

unifying, uniting
Antonyms of squandering

assembling, clustering, collecting, concentrating, congregating, gathering, ingathering

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