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• Wastefully — Wasteful Waste ful, a. 1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses. [1913 Webster] 2. Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• spendthrift — /spend thrift /, n. 1. a person who spends possessions or money extravagantly or wastefully; prodigal. adj. 2. wastefully extravagant; prodigal. [1595 1605; SPEND + THRIFT] Syn. 2. wasteful, improvident, profligate. * * * …   Universalium

• spendthrift — spend•thrift [[t]ˈspɛndˌθrɪft[/t]] n. 1) a person who spends money or wealth extravagantly and wastefully; prodigal 2) wastefully extravagant; prodigal • Etymology: 1595–1605 …   From formal English to slang

• spendthrift — /ˈspɛndθrɪft / (say spendthrift) noun 1. someone who spends their possessions or money extravagantly or wastefully; a prodigal. –adjective 2. wastefully extravagant; prodigal. {spend + thrift (def. 4) …  

• spend|thrift — «SPEHND THRIHFT», noun, adjective. –n. a person who spends wastefully or extravagantly; prodigal: »Fie, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue (Shakespeare). –adj. wastefully extravagant; wasteful: »spendthrift ways. SYNONYM(S): improvident,… …   Useful english dictionary

• Handicap principle — The tail of peacocks, the classic example of a handicapped signal of male quality The handicap principle is a hypothesis originally proposed in 1975 by biologist Amotz Zahavi[1][2 …   Wikipedia

• prodigal — 1. adjective a) wastefully extravagant. He found himself guilty of prodigal spending during the holidays. b) someone yielding profusely, lavish He is not a prodigal son …   Wiktionary

• Just-noticeable difference — In psychophysics, a just noticeable difference, customarily abbreviated with lowercase letters as jnd, is the smallest detectable difference between a starting and secondary level of a particular sensory stimulus.[1] It is also known as the… …   Wikipedia

• prodigal — adjective 1》 wastefully extravagant. 2》 lavish. noun a prodigal person. ↘(also prodigal son or daughter) a person who leaves home to lead a prodigal life but returns repentant. [with allusion to the parable in Luke 15:11–32.] Derivatives… …   English new terms dictionary

• prodigal — ► ADJECTIVE 1) wastefully extravagant. 2) lavish. ► NOUN 1) a prodigal person. 2) (also prodigal son) a person who leaves home to lead a prodigal life but returns repentant. [ORIGIN: with allusion to the parable in the Gospel of Luke, chapter… …   English terms dictionary

• prodigality — prodigal ► ADJECTIVE 1) wastefully extravagant. 2) lavish. ► NOUN 1) a prodigal person. 2) (also prodigal son) a person who leaves home to lead a prodigal life but returns repentant. [ORIGIN: with allusion to the parable in the Gospel of Luke,… …   English terms dictionary