wasteful Meaning, Definition & Usage

adjective satellite inefficient in use of time and effort and materials
uneconomical.
- a clumsy and wasteful process
- wasteful duplication of effort
- uneconomical ebb and flow of power
adjective tending to squander and waste
adjective satellite laying waste
- when wasteful war shall statues overturn"- Shakespeare

Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as; wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.
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.
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.