wastrel

English - Turkish

Definition of wastrel in English Turkish dictionary

işe yaramaz adam

{i} defolu mal

{i} çok müsrif kimse

{i} ıskarta

{i} işe yaramaz kimse, hayta, serseri

bir işe yaramaz kimse

{i} işe yaramaz kimse

{i} savurgan kimse

serseri

English - English

Definition of wastrel in English English dictionary

One who is profligate, who wastes time or resources extravagantly

Mary's mother - if that was her picture - may have been a wastrel in her spare time (she had thirteen children by a minister of the church), but if so her gay and dissipated life had left too few traces of its pleasures on her face.

{n} ground not inclosed, a common

1. A person who wastes, especially one who squanders money; a spendthrift.2. An idler; a loafer; a good-for-nothing

Thad risked everything, including his farm, to set Abner up in the grocery business in the town of Hargrave, only to have Abner turn wastrel and lose everything.

Anything cast away as bad or useless, as imperfect bricks, china, etc

A profligate

{i} person who wastes; bum; waste; abandoned child, foundling

Any waste thing or substance Waste land or common land

If you describe someone as a wastrel you mean that they are lazy and spend their time and money on foolish things. a lazy person who does not try to achieve anything in life (waste + -rel (as in scoundrel))

someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently

A person who wastes time or resources extravagantly

A neglected child; a street Arab

Related Terms

wastrels

plural of wastrel

Hyphenation

wast·rel

Etymology

[ 'wAs-tr&l also 'w&a ] (noun.) circa 1841. 1847, waste +‎ -rel (“(pejorative)”).“” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001