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wasteful

adjective

1 wasteful

Inefficient in use of time and effort and materials:
— A clumsy and wasteful process.
— Wasteful duplication of effort.

synonym: uneconomical.

Roget 638: wasted etc. v.; at a low ebb.    wasteful etc. (prodigal) 818; penny wise and pound foolish.   

Roget 818: prodigal, profuse, thriftless, unthrifty, improvident, wasteful, losel, extravagant, lavish, dissipated, overliberal; full-handed etc. (liberal) ... show more

Polish: nieekonomiczny, niegospodarczy

2 wasteful

Tending to squander and waste.

3 wasteful

Laying waste.


Moby thesaurus: baneful, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consuming, consumptive, deadly, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destroying, destructive, devastating, disastrous, dissipative, doomful, easy come, easy go ... show more.

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