Someone who's wasteful uses and disposes of things carelessly. A wasteful child might eat two bites of yogurt and then throw the rest of the container away.
Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as; wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.
Adjective S.
laying waste; "when wasteful war shall statues overturn"- Shakespeare
Adjective S.
inefficient in use of time and effort and materials; "a clumsy and wasteful process"; "wasteful duplication of effort"; "uneconomical ebb and flow of power"
Adjective
tending to squander and waste
a.
Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as,
wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.
a.
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.
a.
Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled.
Wasteful
In wilderness and wasteful desert strayed.
Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as; wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.
Usage Examples
The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.
Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.
Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
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Other Usage ExamplesThoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.
I am honored that my freshman class colleagues have put their trust in me to represent our historic class at the leadership table. The incoming freshman class of Representatives is large and diverse but we share many common goals including cutting wasteful spending, getting our economy back on track and making government smarter and more efficient.
I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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