Category:Wasteful

Waste"ful, c.

1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as; wasteful Practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.

2. 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. Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled. [obs.] In wilderness and wasteful desert strayed. Spenser.

Syn. -- lavish; profuse; prodigal; extravagant. -- waste"ful*ly, adv. -- waste"ful*ness, n.