wasteful
AdjectiveUS[weyst-fuhl]/ˈweɪstfəl/2 syllables
Synonyms:
uneconomical
Open English WordNet
Adjective (3)
- inefficient in use of time and effort and materials“a clumsy and wasteful process”“wasteful duplication of effort”“uneconomical ebb and flow of power”Synonyms: uneconomicalOpposite efficientSimilar inefficient
- tending to squander and wasteOpposite thriftySimilar extravagant, pound-foolish, uneconomicalSee also improvident
- laying waste“when wasteful war shall statues overturn — Shakespeare”Opposite constructiveSimilar destructive
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Waste′ful adjective
1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.
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.
3. Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled. obsolete
In wilderness and wasteful desert strayed.— Edmund Spenser
Synonyms: Lavish; profuse; prodigal; extravagant.
— Waste′wb-a1′>′ful·ly, adverb — Waste′wb-a1′>′ful·ness, noun
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54