Word Meanings - UNTHRIFTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not thrifty; profuse. Spenser.

Related words: (words related to UNTHRIFTY)

• PROFUSENESS
  Extravagance; profusion. Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness. Atterbury.
• PROFUSELY
  In a profuse manner.
• PROFUSE
  or out; pro forward, forth + fundere to pour: cf. F. profus. See Fuse 1. Pouring forth with fullness or exuberance; bountiful; exceedingly liberal; giving without stint; as, a profuse government; profuse hospitality. A green, shady bank, profuse
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• THRIFTY
  1. Given to, or evincing, thrift; characterized by economy and good menegement of property; sparing; frugal. Her chaffer was so thrifty and so new. Chaucer. I am glad he hath so much youth and vigor left, of which he hath not been thrifty. Swift.
• UNTHRIFTY
  Not thrifty; profuse. Spenser.
• SPENDTHRIFTY
  Spendthrift; prodigal.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.