wasteful

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈweɪstfəl/

Adjective

wasteful

1. Inclined to waste or squander money or resources.

   Antonyms: unwasteful

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 [...].

Translations

• French: dépensier, gaspilleur, dilapidateur
• German: verschwenderisch
• Portuguese: desperdiçador
• Russian: расточи́тельный
• Spanish: derrochador, antieconómico

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