thriftlessness

Questions about thriftlessness

What does thriftlessness mean?

thriftlessness means "the trait of wasting resources".

How many syllables are in thriftlessness?

thriftlessness has 3 syllables and divides as thrift-les-sness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for thriftlessness?

Close synonyms include waste, wastefulness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is thriftlessness a common word?

thriftlessness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.