Australian English Meaning of wasteful

Wasteful

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Definitions and Meaning of wasteful in English

Wordnet

wasteful (s)

inefficient in use of time and effort and materials

laying waste

Wordnet

wasteful (a)

tending to squander and waste

Webster

wasteful (a.)

Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.

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.

Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled.

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Wasteful

inefficient in use of time and effort and materials, tending to squander and waste, laying wasteFull of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful pr

careless,extravagant,generous,liberal,philanthropic,prodigal,profligate,reckless,Spendthrift,profligate

cheap,economical,frugal,miserly,parsimonious,spare,mean,thrifty,conserving,careful

wasted => wasted, wastebook => wastebook, wasteboard => wasteboard, wastebin => bin, wastebasket => Bin,