spend-all

Thân thiện

A spend-all quickly empties their wallet on unnecessary luxuries.

Definition

Noun: A person who spends money in a wasteful, extravagant, or reckless manner; a prodigal spender.

Usage

This noun is used to describe a person whose characteristic behavior is to spend money excessively and without prudence. It often carries a negative connotation of wastefulness.

Examples

• After inheriting the fortune, he became a notorious spend-all, exhausting the wealth within a few years.
• The company's financial troubles were blamed on the former CEO, who was a spend-all with corporate funds.
• She worried her son was turning into a spend-all, buying expensive gadgets he never used.

Advanced Usage

• The term can be used metaphorically to describe someone who exhausts non-monetary resources (like time or energy) with similar recklessness, though this is less common.
  • He was a spend-all of his own talent, taking on too many projects and producing mediocre work.

Variants and Related Words

• Spendthrift (noun): A more common synonym for a person who spends money wastefully.
• Prodigal (noun/adjective): (As a noun) a person who spends money or resources recklessly; (as an adjective) wastefully extravagant.
• Wastrel (noun): A person who wastes resources, often idle or good-for-nothing.

Synonyms

• Squanderer
• Profligate
• Big spender (less negative connotation)
• Waster

Antonyms

• Saver
• Miser
• Hoarder
• Frugal person

Học thuật

Noun

1. someone who spends money prodigally

Từ đồng nghĩa

• spendthrift
• spender
• scattergood