(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 4:20:48

Waste"ful (?), c.

1.

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

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.

3.

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.

 

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