Prodigality


Synonyms for prodigality
noun extravagance

profusion
amenity
exorbitance
profuseness
absurdity
lavishness
outrageousness
frill
luxury

waste
exaggeration
overindulgence
extravagancy
expenditure
excess
dissipation
wastefulness
improvidence

profligacy
folly
recklessness
superfluity
unrestraint
preposterousness
squander
unreasonableness
immoderation

squandering
wildness
icing on the cake
overdoing
overspending
unthrift

Antonyms for prodigality

economy

frugality

lack

Concept Thesaurus for word prodigality
4. Monetary Relations
Synonyms – noun

prodigality
profusion
malversation.
losel

prodigence
profuseness
prodigal
squanderer

unthriftiness
extravagance
spendthrift
locust

waste
squandering
waste thrift
high roller [U.S.].

Synonyms – verbs

be prodigal
pour forth like water
spill
drain
run out
throw the helve after the hatchet
potter away one’s money
pour water into a sieve

squander
blow
waste
eat out of house and home
run through
burn the candle at both ends
muddle away one’s money
kill the goose that lays the golden eggs

lavish
blow in
dissipate
overdraw
misspend
make ducks and drakes of one’s money
fritter away one’s money
manger son ble en herbe.

sow broadcast
pay through the nose (dear)
exhaust
outrun the constable
throw good money after bad
fool away one’s money
throw away one’s money

Synonyms – adjectives

prodigal
improvident
lavish
penny wise and pound foolish.

profuse
wasteful
dissipated

thriftless
losel
overliberal

unthrifty
extravagant
full-handed (liberal) [more]

Synonyms – phrases
amor nummi [Latin]; facile largiri de alieno; wie gewonnen so zerronnen [German]; les fous font les festins et les sages les mangent [French]; “spendthrift alike of money and of wit” [Cowper]; “squandering wealth was his peculiar art” [Dryden].
Antonyms

parsimony

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