Thesaurus: wasteful

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1. a. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.
2. a. 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.
3. a. Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled.
4. adj. inefficient in use of time and effort and materials
5. adj. tending to squander and waste
6. adj. laying waste
7. 1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as; wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses. 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. 3. Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled. [Obs.] In wilderness and wasteful desert strayed. Spenser. Syn. -- Lavish; profuse; prodigal; extravagant. -- Waste"ful*ly, adv. -- Waste"ful*ness, n.
8. j:100 a. tending to squander and waste s. laying waste