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

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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. j:100 a. tending to squander and waste s. laying waste