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Meaning of 'wasteful' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . 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.

Meaning of 'wasteful' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . wasteful [ s]
Meaning (1):
- inefficient in use of time and effort and materials
Example in sentence:
  • a clumsy and wasteful process;
  • uneconomical ebb and flow of power;
  • wasteful duplication of effort
Meaning (2):
- laying waste
Example in sentence:
  • when wasteful war shall statues overturn

Nearby Words:

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