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wasteful 音标拼音: [w'estfəl] a. 浪费的,不经济的 浪费的,不经济的 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" [synonym: {uneconomical}, {wasteful}] 2: tending to squander and waste [ant: {thrifty}] 3: laying waste; "when wasteful war shall statues overturn"- Shakespeare 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"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Waste"ful*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] 51 Moby Thesaurus words for "wasteful":
baneful, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consuming, consumptive, deadly, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destroying, destructive, devastating, disastrous, dissipative, doomful, easy come, easy go, extravagant, fatal, fateful, fratricidal, incontinent, intemperate, internecine, lavish, nihilist, nihilistic, overgenerous, overlavish, overliberal, penny-wise and pound-foolish, pound-foolish, prodigal, profligate, profuse, ravaging, ruining, ruinous, self-destructive, spendthrift, subversionary, subversive, suicidal, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, wasting, withering
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