Usually means: Using resources excessively and unnecessarily.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word WASTEFUL:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. wasteful: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. wasteful: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wasteful: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. wasteful: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wasteful: Vocabulary.com
  6. Wasteful, wasteful: Wordnik
  7. wasteful: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. wasteful: Wiktionary
  9. wasteful: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. wasteful: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. wasteful: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. wasteful: Dictionary.com
  13. wasteful: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Wasteful: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. wasteful: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. wasteful: Rhymezone
  17. Wasteful: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. wasteful: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. wasteful: Free Dictionary
  20. wasteful: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. wasteful: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wasteful: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wasteful: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (wasteful)

▸ adjective:  Inclined to waste or squander money or resources.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Uninhabited, desolate.

Similar:
spendthrift, profligate, prodigal, extravagant, pound-foolish, destructive, uneconomic, inefficient, uneconomical, spendful, more...

Opposite:
frugal, economical, thrifty, efficient, prudent

Types:
extravagant, lavish, prodigal, prodigious, sumptuous, more...

Phrases:
not wasteful, opposite of wasteful, wasteful projects, recklessly wasteful, less wasteful, more...

Adjectives:
least, old, untimely, best, unconscionably, dreadful, own, enervating, worst, unacceptably, highest

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Similar:
spendthrift, profligate, prodigal, extravagant, pound-foolish, destructive, uneconomic, inefficient, uneconomical, spendful, more...

Opposite:
frugal, economical, thrifty, efficient, prudent

Types:
extravagant, lavish, prodigal, prodigious, sumptuous, more...

Phrases:
not wasteful, opposite of wasteful, wasteful projects, recklessly wasteful, less wasteful, wasteful spending, wasteful nature, wasteful unnecessary, wasteful with food, wasteful person, more...

Adjectives:
least, old, untimely, best, unconscionably, dreadful, own, enervating, worst, unacceptably, highest

Colors:
    gray,     brown,     dull green,     beige,     mustard yellow, more...



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