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[syn: wastefully, prodigally]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Wasteful \Waste"ful\, a.
1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as,
wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.
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2. 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.
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3. Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled. [Obs.]
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In wilderness and wasteful desert strayed.
--Spenser.
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Syn: Lavish; profuse; prodigal; extravagant.
[1913 Webster] -- Waste"ful*ly, adv. --
Waste"ful*ness, n.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
wastefully
adv 1: to a wasteful manner or to a wasteful degree; "we are
still prodigally rich compared to others" [syn:
wastefully, prodigally]