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Wastrel: Definition and part of speech

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Wastrel

  1. n. Anything cast away as bad or useless, as imperfect bricks, china, etc.
  2. n. Any waste thing or substance
  3. n. Waste land or common land.
  4. n. A profligate.
  5. n. A neglected child; a street Arab.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Waster: Definition and part of speech

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Waster

  1. v. t. A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil.
  2. v. t. One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal.
  3. v. t. An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste; — called also a thief.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Wasteweir: Definition and part of speech

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Wasteweir

  1. n. An overfall, or weir, for the escape, or overflow, of superfluous water from a canal, reservoir, pond, or the like.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Wastebook: Definition and part of speech

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Wastebook

  1. n. A book in which rough entries of transactions are made, previous to their being carried into the journal.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Wasteful: Definition and part of speech

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Wasteful

  1. a. Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled.
  2. a. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.
  3. a. Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a wasteful person; a wasteful disposition.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.