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wasteful
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective wasteful has 3 senses
- wasteful(s = adj.all) uneconomical - inefficient in use of time and effort and materials; "a clumsy and wasteful process"; "wasteful duplication of effort"; "uneconomical ebb and flow of power" Derived form noun wastefulness2
- wasteful(a = adj.all) Array - tending to squander and waste; Array Antonym: thrifty
- wasteful(s = adj.all) Array - laying waste; "when wasteful war shall statues overturn" Derived form noun wastefulness2
Derived form noun wastefulness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
wasteful, a.
- Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses. [1913 Webster]
- Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a wasteful person; a wasteful disposition. [1913 Webster]
- Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled. [1913 Webster]"In wilderness and wasteful desert strayed." [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Lavish; profuse; prodigal; extravagant.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
wasteful, adj.
1 extravagant.
2 causing or showing waste.
1 extravagant.
2 causing or showing waste.
Derivative
wastefully adj. wastefulness n.
THESAURUS
wasteful
baneful, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consuming, consumptive, deadly, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destroying, destructive, devastating, disastrous, dissipative, doomful, easy come, easy go, extravagant, fatal, fateful, fratricidal, incontinent, intemperate, internecine, lavish, nihilist, nihilistic, overgenerous, overlavish, overliberal, penny-wise and pound-foolish, pound-foolish, prodigal, profligate, profuse, ravaging, ruining, ruinous, self-destructive, spendthrift, subversionary, subversive, suicidal, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, wasting, witheringROGET THESAURUS
wasteful
Waste
N waste, consumption, expenditure, exhaustion, dispersion, ebb, leakage, loss, wear and tear, waste, prodigality, misuse, wasting, rubbish, mountain in labor, wasted, at a low ebb, wasteful, penny wise and pound foolish, magno conatu magnas nugas, le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle, idly busy rolls their world away.Prodigality
N prodigality, prodigence, unthriftiness, waste, profusion, profuseness, extravagance, squandering, malversation, prodigal, spendthrift, waste thrift, losel, squanderer, locust, high roller, prodigal, profuse, thriftless, unthrifty, improvident, wasteful, losel, extravagant, lavish, dissipated, overliberal, full-handed, penny wise and pound foolish, with an unsparing hand, money burning a hole in one's pocket, amor nummi, facile largiri de alieno, wie gewonnen so zerronnen, les fous font les festins et les sages les mangent, spendthrift alike of money and of wit, squandering wealth was his peculiar art.
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