wasteful

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wasteful - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Wasteful \Waste"ful\, a.
     1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as,
        wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.
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     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.
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     3. Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled. [Obs.]
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              In wilderness and wasteful desert strayed.
                                                    --Spenser.
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     Syn: Lavish; profuse; prodigal; extravagant.
          [1913 Webster] -- Waste"ful*ly, adv. --
          Waste"ful*ness, n.
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wasteful - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  wasteful
      adj 1: inefficient in use of time and effort and materials; "a
             clumsy and wasteful process"; "wasteful duplication of
             effort"; "uneconomical ebb and flow of power" [syn:
             uneconomical, wasteful]
      2: tending to squander and waste [ant: thrifty]
      3: laying waste; "when wasteful war shall statues overturn"-
         Shakespeare

wasteful - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  51 Moby Thesaurus words for "wasteful":
     baneful, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic,
     consuming, consumptive, deadly, demolishing, demolitionary,
     depredatory, desolating, destroying, destructive, devastating,
     disastrous, dissipative, doomful, easy come, easy go, extravagant,
     fatal, fateful, fratricidal, incontinent, intemperate, internecine,
     lavish, nihilist, nihilistic, overgenerous, overlavish,
     overliberal, penny-wise and pound-foolish, pound-foolish, prodigal,
     profligate, profuse, ravaging, ruining, ruinous, self-destructive,
     spendthrift, subversionary, subversive, suicidal, vandalic,
     vandalish, vandalistic, wasting, withering