Meaning of WASTEFUL
| Pronunciation: | | 'weystful
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | destructive, extravagant, inefficient, pound-foolish, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift, uneconomic, uneconomical |
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| | Antonyms: | | thrifty | | |
| | See Also: | | improvident | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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