wastrel means One who is profligate, who wastes time or resources extravagantly. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 84 out of 100.
Why this word is great
WASTREL — [Noun] One who is profligate, who wastes time or resources extravagantly. From the English waste ("to squander") + -rel (pejorative suffix). Unlike "spendthrift" (which fixates on financial ruin) or "vagabond" (which romanticizes rootlessness), a wastrel is a figure of squandered potential, idling in the wreckage of their own making. It is the heir burning through his inheritance on hollow revels, the gifted artist who drinks away his talent in dim-lit taverns, the once-bright student now slumped in a chair, staring at the ceiling as the hours bleed away—a testament to how time, the most finite resource, can be frittered into nothing.
noun
- One who is profligate, who wastes time or resources extravagantly.“And so with one thing and other the auld witch raised the fiends of jealousy in that innocent heart. She would cry out that Heriotside was an ill-doing wastrel, and had no business to come and flatter honest lassies.”
- A neglected child.
- Refuse; rubbish.