Associations to the word «Waster»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

WASTER, noun. Someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently.
WASTER, noun. A person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to; "a destroyer of the environment"; "jealousy was his undoer"; "uprooters of gravestones".

Wise words

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke