• Wasteful

    Pronunciation

    • IPA: /ˈweɪstfÉ™l/
    • Rhymes: -eɪstfÉ™l

    Origin

    From waste + -ful.

    Full definition of wasteful

    Adjective

    wasteful

    1. Inclined to waste or squander money or resources.
    2. (obsolete) Uninhabited, desolate.
      • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.6:Shortly unto the wastefull woods she came,
        Whereas she found the Goddesse with her crew ....

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