Synonyms of the word

wastrel

• n. (dated) One who is profligate, who wastes time or resources extravagantly.

prodigal

• adj. wastefully extravagant.
• adj. (often followed by of or with) someone yielding profusely, lavish.
• adj. profuse, lavishly abundant.
• adj. returning after abandoning a person, group, or ideal, especially for selfish reasons; being a prodigal…
• n. A prodigal person, a spendthrift.

profligate

• adj. Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.
• adj. Immoral; abandoned to vice.
• adj. (obsolete) Overthrown, ruined.
• n. An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
• n. An overly wasteful or extravagant individual.
• v. (obsolete) To drive away; to overcome.

squanderer

• n. Agent noun of squander; one who squanders.

waster

• n. Someone or something that wastes; someone who squanders or spends extravagantly.
• n. (dialectal) An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste.
• n. A destroyer.
• n. (obsolete, chiefly fencing) A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil.