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unthrifty

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
un-thrifty
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Not thrifty: wasteful, extravagant; unproductive.

Etymology

From Middle English unthrifty. By surface analysis, un + thrifty.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

unthriftier (comparative) unthriftiest (superlative)

Derived Forms

unthriftiness

Questions

What does unthrifty mean?
Not thrifty: wasteful, extravagant; unproductive.
Where does unthrifty come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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