- 1. a. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses. Source: opted
- 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. Source: opted
- 3. a. Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled. Source: opted
- 4. adj. inefficient in use of time and effort and materials Source: wordnet
- 5. adj. tending to squander and waste Source: wordnet
- 6. adj. laying waste Source: wordnet
- 7. j:100 a. tending to squander and waste s. laying waste Source: ecdict
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