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What does it mean?
I read, a lot. Often, I encounter a word that I do not know the exact meaning but can surmise the meaning from the text. I know spendthrift meaning is a person that spends excessively. I know that thrifty means to spend responsibly. So, why is thrift in spendthrift the opposite of thrift in thrifty?
Thrift...
Thrifty...
(of a person or their behavior) using money and other resources carefully and not wastefully:
Spendthirft...
a person who spends money in an extravagant, irresponsible way:
So, why the opposite meaning from two seemingly similar words? The web knows!
"Spendthrift" derives from an obsolete sense of the word "thrift" to mean prosperity rather than frugality, so a "spendthrift" is one who has spent their prosperity
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