wasteful
given to or characterized by useless consumption or expenditure: wasteful methods; a wasteful way of life.
grossly extravagant; prodigal: a wasteful party.
devastating or destructive: wasteful war.
Origin of wasteful
1Other words from wasteful
- waste·ful·ly, adverb
- waste·ful·ness, noun
- un·waste·ful, adjective
- un·waste·ful·ly, adverb
- un·waste·ful·ness, noun
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How to use wasteful in a sentence
It’s extremely time-consuming, wasteful in energy, and a head-scratcher in that it doesn’t match our human experience of learning.
2021 Could Be a Banner Year for AI—If We Solve These 4 Problems | Shelly Fan | January 5, 2021 | Singularity HubDespite this notoriety, these materials aren’t necessarily as wasteful as many consumers may think.
Reusable grocery bags aren’t as environmentally friendly as you might think | Kat Eschner | October 28, 2020 | Popular-ScienceThe team argues that traditional barrel aging is a wasteful process, where you lose 20 percent of the product through evaporation, and one that is hard to replicate.
Bespoken Spirits raises $2.6M in seed funding to combine machine learning and accelerated whiskey aging | Frederic Lardinois | October 7, 2020 | TechCrunchIt will seem wasteful and barbaric compared to growing exactly the cuts of meat that we want, with no death or pollution involved.
This Startup Is Growing Sushi-Grade Salmon From Cells in a Lab | Vanessa Bates Ramirez | September 16, 2020 | Singularity HubThe plastics industry is extraordinarily wastefulThe report summarizes four aspects of the industry’s wasteful ways.
Big Oil’s hopes are pinned on plastics. It won’t end well. | David Roberts | September 4, 2020 | Vox
Two-thirds agree that “government is usually inefficient and wasteful.”
Though with budget cuts now looming, Congress is trying to gut some of those benefits while wasteful programs go untouched.
That said, he has motioned that he would not be against cutting wasteful spending from the defense budget.
The most interesting part of eccentricity may be just how wasteful it usually is.
If those 3s turn into 2's and 1's, then it will be clear that this whole program was a giant, wasteful mess.
Peace, also—or peace under the old conditions of industry—is infinitely wasteful of human energy.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockOccasionally Malcolm shot a peacock, but shooting birds with a revolver is a difficult sport and wasteful of ammunition.
The Red Year | Louis TracyThese Indians were so fierce, and warlike, and wasteful, they went about destroying everything.
Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children | Mabel PowersAt the foot of the lake, a mass of ice was piled high over the shore, where lived these wasteful Indians.
Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children | Mabel PowersYou that are so wasteful of your buttons,” said I, “I can hardly think you would be a good judge of business.
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British Dictionary definitions for wasteful
/ (ˈweɪstfʊl) /
tending to waste or squander; extravagant
causing waste, destruction, or devastation
Derived forms of wasteful
- wastefully, adverb
- wastefulness, noun
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