Associations to the word «Wasteful»
Noun
- Duplication
- Extravagance
- Expenditure
- Spending
- Taxpayer
- Fleece
- Wexford
- Bureaucracy
- Subsidy
- Overly
- Excess
- Gaines
- Consumption
- Leinster
- Resource
- Pork
- Steak
- Abyss
- Efficiency
- Billion
- Wild
- Appropriation
- Deficit
- Energy
- Hollow
- Luxury
- Taxation
- Fuel
- Atp
- Famine
- Method
- Corruption
- Wealth
- Cock
- Slaughter
- Practice
- Cost
- Living
- Cultivation
- Tax
- Productivity
- Emission
- Reduction
- Rivalry
- Yang
- Debt
- Shareholder
- Habit
Adjective
Wiktionary
WASTEFUL, adjective. Inclined to waste or squander money or resources.
WASTEFUL, adjective. (obsolete) Uninhabited, desolate.
Dictionary definition
WASTEFUL, adjective. Inefficient in use of time and effort and materials; "a clumsy and wasteful process"; "wasteful duplication of effort"; "uneconomical ebb and flow of power".
WASTEFUL, adjective. Tending to squander and waste.
WASTEFUL, adjective. Laying waste; "when wasteful war shall statues overturn"- Shakespeare.
Wise words
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and
nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar
words.