Difference between Spendthrift and Prodigal

What is the difference between Spendthrift and Prodigal?

Spendthrift as a noun is someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully. while Prodigal as a noun is a prodigal person, a spendthrift.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Wasteful, improvident or profligate. Lavish or extravagant.

Example sentence: I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A prodigal person, a spendthrift.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: wastefully extravagant.someone yielding profusely, lavishprofuse, lavishly abundant

Example sentence: The Orpheus myth is my favorite myth, and the prodigal son is my favorite parable.

We hope you now know whether to use Spendthrift or Prodigal in your sentence.