wasteful
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- inefficient in use of time and effort and materials
- "a clumsy and wasteful process"
- "wasteful duplication of effort"
- laying waste; - Shakespeare
- "when wasteful war shall statues overturn"
Adjective
- tending to squander and waste
Adj
- Inclined to waste or squander money or resources.
- Uninhabited, desolate.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English wastful; equivalent to waste + -ful.
Synonyms
beingless, desert, deserted, desolate, disinhabited, extravagant, improvident, imprudent, inhabitantless, inhabited, lavish, lifeless, peopleless, prodigal, profligate, reckless, solitary, spendthrift, squandering, tenantless, uneconomical, unhabited, uninhabited, unoccupied, unpeopled, unpopulated, untenanted, unthrifty, vacant, wasteful
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 14
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