Associations to the word «Wasteful»

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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope