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Wasteful

Wasteful Meaning & Definition
Wasteful Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Wasteful?

[adj] laying waste; "when wasteful war shall statues overturn"- Shakespeare
[adj] inefficient in use of time and effort and materials; "a clumsy and wasteful process"; "wasteful duplication of effort"; "uneconomical ebb and flow of power"
[adj] tending to squander and waste

Synonyms | Synonyms for Wasteful: destructive | extravagant | inefficient | pound-foolish | prodigal | profligate | spendthrift | uneconomic | uneconomical

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See Also | improvident

Wasteful In Webster's Dictionary

\Waste"ful\, a. 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. [Obs.] In wilderness and wasteful desert strayed. --Spenser. Syn: Lavish; profuse; prodigal; extravagant. -- {Waste"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Waste"ful*ness}, n.

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