Definition for Squandering:

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

Synonyms for Squandering:

• n.

  •misuse (noun)
  • Misemployment.

• v.

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

• Other synonyms:

  •lavish
  • prodigal.
  •Other relevant words:
  • hedonism,
  • bountifully,
  • Lavishment,
  • deprivation,
  • Abusing,
  • self-indulgence,
  • fritter,
  • conspicuous consumption,
  • intemperateness,
  • finishing,
  • bumbling,
  • wasting,
  • devastating,
  • devouring,
  • dissoluteness,
  • plentifully,
  • intemperate,
  • profligately,
  • dissipation,
  • wickedly,
  • downing,
  • floating,
  • licentiousness,
  • drain,
  • sprinkling,
  • rakishness,
  • thriftless,
  • use,
  • give away,
  • excessively,
  • wastefully,
  • abandonment,
  • exhausting,
  • have,
  • Destroying,
  • thoughtlessly,
  • blow,
  • baring,
  • misapplication,
  • bobbling,
  • run through,
  • liquidate,
  • profuseness,
  • languish,
  • improvident,
  • abandon,
  • Misspending,
  • misusing,
  • gassing,
  • abuse,
  • Frittering,
  • profligate,
  • leave,
  • mishandling,
  • squanderer,
  • Liquidating,
  • immoderate,
  • immorally,
  • dolce vita,
  • Sybaritism,
  • assimilation,
  • bragging,
  • dishonestly,
  • devastation,
  • riddance,
  • depletion,
  • thriftlessness,
  • ingesting,
  • decadently,
  • Employing,
  • incontinence,
  • Desolating,
  • Touting,
  • copiously,
  • dissolution,
  • attrition,
  • consuming,
  • excess,
  • fluffing,
  • profusely,
  • dispossession,
  • Dispelling,
  • trifling,
  • Waring,
  • lose,
  • voluptuousness,
  • Unthriftiness,
  • rotting,
  • spend,
  • vaunt,
  • ablation,
  • fast living,
  • sensualism,
  • carousing,
  • carelessness,
  • Wantoning,
  • exorbitance,
  • ingestion,
  • reckless,
  • Unthrifty,
  • excessive,
  • Lavishing,
  • abundantly,
  • Emaciating,
  • dissolutely,
  • boasting,
  • intemperance,
  • digestion,
  • ruining,
  • Dissipating,
  • Muffing,
  • wanton,
  • carpe diem,
  • squander,
  • using,
  • extravagant,
  • debauchery,
  • drifting,
  • neglect,
  • bereavement,
  • exhaustion,
  • wastage,
  • carelessly,
  • Lavisher,
  • dissipate,
  • expend,
  • spendthrift,
  • deplete,
  • wantonly,
  • bungling,
  • privation,
  • wantonness,
  • Macerating,
  • excessiveness,
  • Swashing,
  • scatter,
  • overindulgence,
  • absorbing,
  • Vaunting,
  • fritter away,
  • Fooling,
  • malversation,
  • highlife,
  • prodigally,
  • devastate,
  • scattering,
  • lavishly,
  • consume,
  • Languishing,
  • extravagantly,
  • macerate,
  • expenditure,
  • waste,
  • absorption,
  • Gasconading,
  • free-spending,
  • Dispersing,
  • Prodigence,
  • improvidence,
  • fellate,
  • corruptly,
  • lavish,
  • brag,
  • boast,
  • damage,
  • Depleting,
  • erosion,
  • indulgence,
  • recklessly,
  • Lavished,
  • fumbling,
  • rashly,
  • Botching,
  • devour,
  • ravaging,
  • throw away,
  • profusion,
  • blustering,
  • eat,
  • generously.

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.

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.