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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wasteful \Waste"ful\, a.
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
wasteful
adj 1: inefficient in use of time and effort and materials; "a
clumsy and wasteful process"; "wasteful duplication of
effort"; "uneconomical ebb and flow of power" [syn: {uneconomical}]
2: tending to squander and waste [ant: {thrifty}]
3: laying waste; "when wasteful war shall statues overturn"-
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