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
wasteful (comparative more wasteful, superlative most wasteful)
Inclined to waste or squander money or resources.
Synonyms: prodigal, profligate
Antonym: unwasteful
(obsolete) Uninhabited, desolate.
• 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
30 January 2025
(noun) a severe dermatitis of herbivorous domestic animals attributable to photosensitivity from eating Saint John’s wort
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
