Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Profitless; foolish; wretched.
  • Not thrifty; not careful of one's means; prodigal; profuse; lavish; wasteful.
  • Not thriving; not in good condition; not vigorous in growth.
  • Preventing thrift or thriving; mischievous; wicked.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not thrifty; profuse.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Not thrifty.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ thrifty

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