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Wasteful vs Unthrifty - What's the difference?

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Wasteful is a related term of unthrifty.


As adjectives the difference between wasteful and unthrifty

is that wasteful is inclined to waste or squander money or resources while unthrifty is not thrifty.

wasteful

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Inclined to waste or squander money or resources.
  • (obsolete) Uninhabited, desolate.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.6:
    • Shortly unto the wastefull woods she came, / Whereas she found the Goddesse with her crew [...].

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    unthrifty

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Not thrifty.