wastrelEnglishOxford English Thesauruswastrel noun literary 1 her money was gambled away by her wastrel of a husband: spendthrift, prodigal, profligate, squanderer; informal big spender. 2 he was mixing with thieves and wastrels when he ought to have been studying: idler, loafer, good-for-nothing, drone, ne'er-do-well, do-nothing, layabout, slob, lounger, shirker, sluggard, slug, laggard, slugabed; informal waster, loser, slacker, lazybones; British, informal skiver.wastrel Oxford Dictionary of English