Crossword Path

Find words for crosswords, Scrabble and word games

Word entry · 11 letters

spendthrift

Limited data

No curated clues yet.

Use pattern search to check whether the word fits.

11 lettersPronunciation /ˈspɛn(d)θɹɪft/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted defhinprsttStarts with SEnds with T0 cluesCommon crossword word
1S2P3E4N5D6T7H8R9I10F11T

Not quite right?

"Search similar patterns."

S__________

Definitions

  1. recklessly wasteful

Word origin

From spend + thrift (“(archaic) savings; profits; wealth”).

Used in a sentence

  • Wel, go to wild oats, ſpend thrift prodigal, / Ile croſſe thy name quight from my reckning booke: / For theſe accounts, faith it ſhall ſcath thee ſome what, / I will not ſay what, ſomewhat it ſhall be.
  • Powerful feelings and generous designs are, alas! too like the inheritance of a miser in the hands of some spendthrift heir—lavished away on trifles in our early years, and needed, but not possessed, in our riper age.
  • Rufus's stone lies in the outskirts of the forest, and in a few minutes they emerged upon the broad heath which bounds it, then like a sea of gold; for the furze was in the first glory of its spendthrift wealth.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer0 curated clues

No curated clues for spendthrift yet.

Related words