wasteful

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}, {wasteful}]
    2: tending to squander and waste [ant: {thrifty}]
    3: laying waste; "when wasteful war shall statues overturn"-
       Shakespeare
    

Wasteful \Waste"ful\, a.
   1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as,
      wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.
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   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.
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   3. Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled. [Obs.]
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            In wilderness and wasteful desert strayed.
                                                  --Spenser.
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   Syn: Lavish; profuse; prodigal; extravagant.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Waste"ful*ly}, adv. --
        {Waste"ful*ness}, n.
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51 Moby Thesaurus words for "wasteful":
      baneful, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic,
      consuming, consumptive, deadly, demolishing, demolitionary,
      depredatory, desolating, destroying, destructive, devastating,
      disastrous, dissipative, doomful, easy come, easy go, extravagant,
      fatal, fateful, fratricidal, incontinent, intemperate, internecine,
      lavish, nihilist, nihilistic, overgenerous, overlavish,
      overliberal, penny-wise and pound-foolish, pound-foolish, prodigal,
      profligate, profuse, ravaging, ruining, ruinous, self-destructive,
      spendthrift, subversionary, subversive, suicidal, vandalic,
      vandalish, vandalistic, wasting, withering