Someone bad with money is often called a spendthrift, but other terms include prodigal, squanderer, profligate, extravagant, or thriftless, all describing someone who wastes money carelessly. Other descriptions can include being financially reckless, improvident, or lacking in financial prudence.
A miser /ˈmaɪzər/ is a person who is reluctant to spend money, sometimes to the point of forgoing even basic comforts and some necessities, in order to hoard money or other possessions.
spendthrift. [spend-thrift] / ˈspɛndˌθrɪft / NOUN. person careless with money.
Some common synonyms of frugal are economical, sparing, and thrifty. While all these words mean "careful in the use of one's money or resources," frugal implies absence of luxury and simplicity of lifestyle. ran a frugal household.
A spendthrift (also profligate or prodigal) is someone who is extravagant and recklessly wasteful with money, often to a point where the spending climbs well beyond their means.
noun. 1. : one who spends or gives lavishly and foolishly. 2. : one who has returned after an absence.
Someone who is avaricious is greedy or grasping, concerned with gaining wealth. The suggestion is that an avaricious person will do anything to achieve material gain, and it is, in general, not a pleasant attribute.
unsympathetic. ADJECTIVE. without agreement in feeling. aloof apathetic callous cruel disinterested indifferent insensitive lukewarm unconcerned unpleasant unresponsive. WEAK.
person who hoards money, possessions. STRONG. Scrooge cheapskate harpy hoarder moneygrubber stiff tightwad. WEAK. churl penny-pincher pinchfist pinchpenny.
Making impulsive, irresponsible money choices
This can be a significant financial red flag.
Some common synonyms of stingy are close, miserly, niggardly, parsimonious, and penurious. While all these words mean "being unwilling or showing unwillingness to share with others," stingy implies a marked lack of generosity. a stingy child, not given to sharing.
A spendthrift person is reckless and wasteful with his money. If you're a spendthrift, you might find yourself in debt.
Suggest sharing an entree at a restaurant
(Fries are friendship currency.) Just be cool about it. Don't say, “Let's split because I know you don't want to spend much.” Instead, try something like, “Want to split the pad thai and save room for dessert?” Now it's a bonding moment, not a budgeting one, she says.
synonyms: hapless, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched. unfortunate.
Narcissistic personality disorder is characterized by self-absorption, grandiosity, exploitation of others and lack of empathy. People with that disorder may switch from an overt form, mainly with grandiosity, to a covert presentation, with fears, hypersensitivity and dependence from others.
The roots of empathy refer to the foundational influences from a child's family of origin and biological predispositions that contribute to the development of empathy, including automatic distress responses to others' suffering and socialization practices within the family and peer groups.
unsympathetic. When someone doesn't seem to care about the misfortunes of others, they're unsympathetic. If you yawn while your friend is crying about her lost cat, you'll come across as terribly unsympathetic. There are a few ways to use unsympathetic.
Miserly and stingy have negative connotations. Frugal means very careful with money/reluctant to spend a lot, but does not have negative connotations. But it doesn't automatically imply the level of hating to spend money that stingy does. Penny-pinching implies hating to spend money, but isn't seen as a positive thing.
Research has identified seven distinct money personality types: the Compulsive Saver, the Gambler, the Compulsive Moneymaker, the Indifferent-to-Money, the Worrier, the Saver-Splurger, and the Compulsive Spender. Most people exhibit a combination of these traits.
1- Dissatisfaction: the first attitude that appears in the miser is ingratitude. No matter what he has, he always wants more, whether in quantity or quality. Never what he possesses is enough, so he is constantly longing for better, more modern, more expensive things, etc.
Prodigious, monstrous, tremendous, and stupendous all mean extremely impressive. Prodigious suggests marvelousness exceeding belief, usually in something that is felt as going far beyond a previous maximum of goodness, greatness, intensity, or size ("acrobats performing prodigious aerial feats").
Synonyms of "spendthrift" include "prodigal," "waster," and "wastrel." "Prodigal" also has the suggestion of such enthusiastic waste that it would deplete even the most lavish resources, whereas both "waster" and "wastrel" imply that in addition to wastefulness, the person has such dramatic character flaws as to be a ...
The Prodigal Spouse
He took her away from the men who had bought her, gave her a home, and had children by her. She didn't stay with him, but instead ran away to her old life, the life he had rescued her from.