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Meaning of unthrift | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
/ˈʌnθɹɪft/

Definitions

  1. A lack of thriftiness; prodigality.
    countable, uncountable
  2. Someone who is not thrifty; a spendthrift, someone who is not careful with their money.
    archaic, countable, uncountable

Examples

“My ſcoles are not for unthriftes untaught, For frantick faitours half mad and half ſtraught; But my learning is of another degree”
“Look what an unthrift in the world doth spend ...”
“But name not Winter-faces, whose skin's slacke; Lanke, as an unthrifts purse ...”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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