Definition for Squandering:

• spending resources lavishly and wastefully; " more wasteful than the squandering of time"

Synonyms for Squandering:

• adj.

  •prodigal (adjective)
  • in-temperate,
  • more squandering,
  • more spendthrift,
  • in temperate,
  • most squandering,
  • most spendthrift.
  •wasteful (adjective)
  • pound-foolish,
  • prodigal,
  • uneconomical,
  • Unthrifty,
  • overgenerous,
  • profligate,
  • Dissipative,
  • thriftless.

• n.

  •act (noun)
  • squandering.
  •dissipation (noun)
  • life the fast lane,
  • dis solutions,
  • highlivings,
  • free livings,
  • high livings,
  • in-temperances,
  • freeliving,
  • dis-solutions,
  • free-livings,
  • to hell handbasket,
  • squanderings,
  • hell in handbasket,
  • self-gratifications,
  • dis-solution,
  • selfgratification,
  • ex cesses,
  • high-livings,
  • highliving,
  • in-temperance,
  • in temperances,
  • life fast lane,
  • self gratification,
  • freelivings,
  • self gratifications,
  • in temperance,
  • selfgratifications,
  • dis solution,
  • ex-cess,
  • ex-cesses,
  • hell handbasket,
  • ex cess.
  •extravagance (noun)
  • over doing,
  • un-thrift,
  • pro-fusion,
  • over-doing,
  • pro fusions,
  • un-restraints,
  • un reasonablenesses,
  • over indulgence,
  • over-doings,
  • icing the cake,
  • un-reasonableness,
  • un restraint,
  • pro-fusions,
  • icing cake,
  • icing on cake,
  • overspendings,
  • un restraints,
  • immoderations,
  • over-spending,
  • over indulgences,
  • wildnesses,
  • un thrift,
  • un-restraint,
  • un-thrifts,
  • over-indulgences,
  • un thrifts,
  • over doings,
  • unthrifts,
  • un-reasonablenesses,
  • over spending,
  • un reasonableness,
  • pro fusion,
  • overdoings.
  •wantonness (noun)
  • dissipation.
  •waste (noun)
  • Unthriftiness,
  • wastage,
  • lost opportunity,
  • wastages,
  • waste.

• v.

  •expending (verb)
  • spending,
  • Disbursing,
  • splurging,
  • expending.

• Other synonyms:

  •adj.
  • wasteful.
  •n.
  • extravagance,
  • frill,
  • immoderation,
  • lavishness,
  • loss,
  • misuse,
  • prodigality,
  • profligacy,
  • recklessness,
  • self-gratification,
  • wastefulness,
  • wildness,
  • Unthrift,
  • free living,
  • overspending,
  • high living,
  • free-living,
  • high-living,
  • icing on the cake,
  • life in fast lane,
  • life in the fast lane,
  • over-indulgence,
  • to hell in handbasket.

Paraphrases for Squandering:

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, plural
    wastes.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    waste.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    misuse.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    misusing, spending, Forfeiting, Abusing, Loosing.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    wasting, wastefulness, wastage, profligacy, extravagance, dissipation.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    losing, wasting.

Antonyms for Squandering:

• adj.

  • Other antonyms:
    forethoughtful, careful, Pinching, judicious, foresighted, forehanded, mean, wise, farsighted, conserving, prudent, sensible, foreseeing.

Squandering Sentence Examples:

• Zalika began by throwing aside every consideration, and furnishing her house in her usual style, squandering heedlessly her by no means insignificant dowry.

• For none had cared for its beauty Till we came, the strangers, the Giaours, And none had thought of a duty Towards its squandering flowers.

Homophones for Squandering:

• signet ring, smattering, semitrance, sanitariness, smithereens, smothering, saint irenaeus.

Hypernym for Squandering:

• n.

  • act
    squandermania.

Hyponym for Squandering:

• n.

  • act
    dissipation, waste, wastefulness.