In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
WASTEFUL
wasteful
(adjective) laying waste; “when wasteful war shall statues overturn”- Shakespeare
uneconomical, wasteful
(adjective) inefficient in use of time and effort and materials; “a clumsy and wasteful process”; “wasteful duplication of effort”; “uneconomical ebb and flow of power”
wasteful
(adjective) tending to squander and waste
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
wasteful (comparative more wasteful, superlative most wasteful)
Inclined to waste or squander money or resources.
Synonyms: prodigal, profligate
Antonym: unwasteful
(obsolete) Uninhabited, desolate.
Anagrams
• awfulest
Source: Wiktionary
Waste"ful, c.
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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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CATCH
(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”
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