wastrel

Meaning of wastrel

noun
  1. a wasteful or good-for-nothing person.
    I have no intention of seeing my dues gambled away by your wastrel of a son
  2. a waif; a neglected child.

late 16th century (denoting a strip of waste land): from the verb waste + -rel.

Information about wastrel

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of wastrel is: wastrels.
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Hyphenation of wastrel

wastrel

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
  • wastrel is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

wastrel synonyms

Meaning waster:

waster

Meaning a person who spends money in an extravagant, irresponsible way:

spendthrift

Meaning a person who spends money in a recklessly extravagant way:

prodigal

Meaning a licentious, dissolute person:

profligate

Meaning a person who avoids work or spends time in an aimless or lazy way:

idler

Meaning a person who avoids work and spends their time idly:

loafer

Meaning a continuous low humming sound:

drone

Meaning a person who habitually does little or no work:

layabout

Meaning a person who is lazy and has low standards of cleanliness:

slob

Meaning a comfortable chair for relaxing on, especially an outdoor chair that adjusts or extends, allowing a person to recline:

lounger

Meaning a lazy, sluggish person:

sluggard

Meaning a tough-skinned terrestrial mollusc which typically lacks a shell and secretes a film of mucus for protection. It can be a serious plant pest:

slug

Meaning a person who makes slow progress and falls behind others:

laggard

Meaning a lazy person who stays in bed late:

slugabed

Meaning a person or thing that loses or has lost something, especially a game or contest:

loser

Meaning a person who avoids work or effort:

slacker

Meaning a lazy person (often as a form of address):

lazybones

Anagrams of wastrel

Walters, warstle, wrastle

Words that rhyme with wastrel

Factrel, Petrel, Symmetrel, petrel, symmetrel, tetrel, peitrel, poitrel, daintrel, pointrel, stentrel, Cotrel, Lotrel, dotrel, chaptrel, beminstrel, coistrel, costrel, coystrel, custrel, desogestrel, dexnorgestrel, etonogestrel, fenestrel, follistrel, kestrel, ketodesogestrel, levonorgestrel, minstrel, norgestrel, oxodesogestrel, pipistrel, taistrel, cottrel, dottrel, peytrel

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