Wastefulness

Wasteful Waste"ful, a. 1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

3. Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

In wilderness and wasteful desert strayed. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]

Syn: Lavish; profuse; prodigal; extravagant. [1913 Webster] -- {Waste"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Waste"ful*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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wastefulness — index consumption, misapplication, waste Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
wastefulness — wasteful ► ADJECTIVE ▪ using or expending something carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose. DERIVATIVES wastefully adverb wastefulness noun … English terms dictionary
wastefulness — noun 1. useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste mindless dissipation of natural resources • Syn: ↑waste, ↑dissipation • Derivationally… … Useful english dictionary
wastefulness — noun see wasteful … New Collegiate Dictionary
wastefulness — See wastefully. * * * … Universalium
wastefulness — noun imprudent or excessive expenditure or the waste of resources … Wiktionary
wastefulness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Excessive or imprudent expenditure: extravagance, extravagancy, lavishness, prodigality, profligacy, profuseness, profusion, squander, waste. See CAREFUL, SAVE … English dictionary for students
wastefulness — wasteÂ·fulÂ·ness || weÉªstfÊŠlnÉªs n. squandering, immoderation … English contemporary dictionary
wastefulness — waste·ful·ness … English syllables
wastefulness — See: wasteful … English dictionary

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