Wasteful
['weɪstfʊl;-f(ə)l] or ['westfl]
Definition
(adj.) laying waste; 'when wasteful war shall statues overturn'- Shakespeare .
(adj.) tending to squander and waste .
Editor: Maureen--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.
(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.
(a.) Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Destructive, ruinous.[2]. Lavish, prodigal, profuse, extravagant, thriftless, unthrifty, too free, too liberal.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
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Examples
- They were a forest people, not a steppe people, and, consequently, wasteful of wood; they were a cattle people and not a horse people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- What wasteful desolation have we not suffered from the deluge of a sudden shower! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- That is a shallow and wasteful use of the resources of art. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- So began the first of the most wasteful and disastrous series of wars that has ever darkened the history of mankind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- By such practical methods Edison found that the thin, laminated cores of sheet iron gave the least heat, and had the least amount of wasteful eddy currents. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- All this wasteful, wanton chess-playing IS very strange. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Frontal attacks are even more wasteful in learning than in war. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- To his own people Solomon was a wasteful and oppressive monarch, and already before his death his kingdom was splitting, visibly to all men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Broad as the prairies and free in thought as the winds that sweep them, he is idiosyncratically opposed to loose and wasteful methods, to plans of empire that neglect the poor at the gate. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Nobody ever had a bigger scrap-heap than Edison; but who dare proclaim the process intrinsically wasteful if the losses occur in the initial stages, and the economies in all the later ones? Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- On the contrary, all of the few types then obtainable were uneconomical, indeed wasteful, in regard to efficiency. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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