WASTER (waster)

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Irregular inflected form: waster   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does waster mean? 

• WASTER (noun)
  The noun WASTER has 2 senses:

1. someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently

2. a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to

  Familiarity information: WASTER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WASTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

waster; wastrel

Hypernyms ("waster" is a kind of...):

prodigal; profligate; squanderer (a recklessly extravagant consumer)

Derivation:

waste (spend extravagantly)

waste (spend thoughtlessly; throw away)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

destroyer; ruiner; undoer; uprooter; waster

Context example:

uprooters of gravestones

Hypernyms ("waster" is a kind of...):

bad person (a person who does harm to others)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "waster"):

annihilator (a total destroyer)

iconoclast; image breaker (a destroyer of images used in religious worship)

diversionist; saboteur; wrecker (someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks)

vandal (someone who willfully destroys or defaces property)

Derivation:

waste (cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly)

 Context examples 

It shall never be said, whilst I am bailiff of Southampton, that any waster, riever, draw-latch or murtherer came scathless away from me and my posse.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)