Dictionary Entry
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
- 1adjective
Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.
- 2adjective
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.
- 3adjective
Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled.
- 4adjective
laying waste- Shakespeare
"when wasteful war shall statues overturn"
- 5adjective
inefficient in use of time and effort and materials
"a clumsy and wasteful process"
"wasteful duplication of effort"
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- 6adjective
tending to squander and waste
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