Found 2 hits - Term: wastefulness, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
wasteful \waste"ful\, a.
1. full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as,
wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
3. waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled. obs.
1913 webster
in wilderness and wasteful desert strayed.
--spenser.
1913 webster
syn: lavish; profuse; prodigal; extravagant.
1913 webster -- waste"fully, adv. --
waste"fulness, n.
1913 webster
see also:
waste"fully waste"fulness
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
wastefulness
n 1: the trait of wasting resources; "a life characterized by
thriftlessness and waste"; "the wastefulness of missed
opportunities" syn: thriftlessness, waste
2: useless or profitless activity; using or expending or
consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly; "if the effort
brings no compensating gain it is a waste"; "mindless
dissipation of natural resources" syn: waste, dissipation
see also:
thriftlessness waste dissipation
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