waste·ful /ˈwestfəl/
(a.)浪費的,不經濟的
Waste·ful a.
1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.
2. 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. Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled. [Obs.]
In wilderness and wasteful desert strayed. --Spenser.
Syn: -- Lavish; profuse; prodigal; extravagant.
-- Waste*ful*ly, adv. -- Waste*ful*ness, n.
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wasteful
adj 1: inefficient in use of time and effort and materials; "a
clumsy and wasteful process"; "wasteful duplication of
effort"; "uneconomical ebb and flow of power" [syn: uneconomical]
2: tending to squander and waste [ant: thrifty]
3: laying waste; "when wasteful war shall statues overturn"-
Shakespeare