wasteful

wasteful is a 8-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 16 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.
2. adjective. 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. adjective. Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled.
4. adjective. laying waste- Shakespeare

   "when wasteful war shall statues overturn"

5. adjective. inefficient in use of time and effort and materials

   "a clumsy and wasteful process"

   "wasteful duplication of effort"

   Synonyms: uneconomical

6. adjective. tending to squander and waste

Synonyms

uneconomical

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in wasteful:

sweatful

Common word forms

wastefully, wastefulness

Words from these letters

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