Wasteful

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Marked by or inclined to waste; extravagant.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Inclined to waste or squander money or resources.
  • adj. Uninhabited, desolate.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous.
  • adj. Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal.
  • adj. Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Destructive; devastating; wasting.
  • Producing or involving waste; occasioning serious loss or damage; ruinous.
  • Extravagant or lavish; profuse to excess; prodigal; squandering: as, a wasteful person.
  • Uninhabited; desolate; waste.
  • Synonyms and
  • Thriftless, unthrifty.
  • Lavish, Profuse, etc. See extravagant.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. laying waste
  • adj. tending to squander and waste
  • adj. inefficient in use of time and effort and materials
  • Equivalent
    Antonym
    œconomical    stingy   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    extravagant    prodigal    profuse    lavish    ruinous    waste    desolate    unoccupied    untilled    unthrifty   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    distasteful    tasteful   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts