waster
/'weistə/
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Definition
- Noun:
- A person who destroys, ruins, or lays waste to something: A person who causes extensive damage, destruction, or devastation.
- A person who dissipates resources self-indulgently: A person who uses or spends valuable time, money, or materials in a careless, extravagant, or unproductive way.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- The industrialist was labeled an environmental waster for polluting the river.
- He is a hopeless waster of his family's fortune, spending it all on frivolous luxuries.
Advanced Usage
- "A waster of time": A person who habitually wastes time or causes others to waste time.
- Don't be a waster of time; focus on your priorities.
- "A waster of potential": A person who squanders their own talents or abilities.
- The coach called him a waster of potential for not training seriously.
Variants and Related Words
- Waste (verb/noun): To use carelessly or to be used carelessly; unwanted or unusable material.
- It is a crime to waste so much food.
- Wastrel (noun): An archaic or literary term often synonymous with 'waster', meaning a wasteful or good-for-nothing person.
- The old novel portrayed the heir as a dissolute wastrel.
Synonyms
- Squanderer: A person who spends money or resources extravagantly and wastefully.
- Profligate: A person who is recklessly extravagant or wasteful.
- Destroyer: A person or thing that destroys.
Related Phrases
- To lay waste to: To completely destroy or devastate an area.
- The invading army laid waste to the countryside.
Related Idioms
- A waste of space: (Informal, derogatory) A person considered to be useless or unproductive.
- That lazy apprentice is a complete waste of space. (Note: This idiom uses 'waste', not 'waster', but is conceptually related to the idea of uselessness.)
Noun
- a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to
- a destroyer of the environment
- jealousy was his undoer
- uprooters of gravestones
- someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently