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

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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

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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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