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Webster 1913 Edition
Wasteful
Waste′ful
,Adj.
1.
Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous;
as,
. wasteful
practices or negligence; wasteful
expenses2.
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
disposition3.
Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled.
[Obs.]
In wilderness and
wasteful
desert strayed. Spenser.
Syn. – Lavish; profuse; prodigal; extravagant.
– Waste′ful-ly
, adv.
Waste′ful-ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Wasteful
WASTEFUL
,Adj.
1.
Lavish; prodigal; expending property, or that which is valuable, without necessity or use; applied to persons.2.
Destructive to property; ruinous; as wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.3.
Desolate; unoccupied; untilled; uncultivated.In wilderness and wasteful deserts strayd.
Definition 2024
wasteful
wasteful
English
Adjective
wasteful (comparative more wasteful, superlative most wasteful)
- Inclined to waste or squander money or resources.
- (obsolete) Uninhabited, desolate.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.6:
- Shortly unto the wastefull woods she came, / Whereas she found the Goddesse with her crew [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.6:
Translations
inclined to waste
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