Word Meanings - WASTEFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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
Additional info about word: WASTEFUL
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. In wilderness and wasteful desert strayed. Spenser. Syn. -- Lavish; profuse; prodigal; extravagant. -- Waste"ful*ly, adv. -- Waste"ful*ness, n.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WASTEFUL)
- Extravagant
- Wild
- monstrous
- preposterous
- absurd
- prodigal
- wasteful
- reckless
- excessive
- lavish
- profuse
- abnormal
- Lavish
- Profuse
- unsparing
- extravagant
- bountiful
- Prodigal
- squandering
- improvident
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of WASTEFUL)
Related words: (words related to WASTEFUL)
- STORER
One who lays up or forms a store. - PRODIGALLY
In a prodigal manner; with profusion of expense; extravagantly; wasteful; profusely; lavishly; as, an estate prodigally dissipated. Nature not bounteous now, but lavish grows; Our paths with flowers she prodigally strows. Dryden. - LAVISHNESS
The quality or state of being lavish. - LAVISHER
One who lavishes. - ACCUMULATE
To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money. Syn. -- To collect; pile up; store; amass; gather; aggregate; heap together; hoard. - TREASURER
One who has the care of a treasure or treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties, or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and disburses it upon orders made by the proper authority; - BOUNTIFUL
1. Free in giving; liberal in bestowing gifts and favors. God, the bountiful Author of our being. Locke. 2. Plentiful; abundant; as, a bountiful supply of food. Syn. -- Liberal; munificent; generous; bounteous. -- Boun"ti*ful*ly, adv. - SQUANDER
scatter, to squander, Prov. E. swatter, Dan. sqvatte, Sw. sqvätta to squirt, sqvättra to squander, Icel. skvetta to squirt out, to throw 1. To scatter; to disperse. Our squandered troops he rallies. Dryden. 2. To spend lavishly or profusely; - RETAINMENT
The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More. - TREASURERSHIP
The office of treasurer. - HUSBANDABLE
Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy. Sherwood. - HUSBANDLESS
Destitute of a husband. Shak. - PROFUSENESS
Extravagance; profusion. Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness. Atterbury. - ABSURDNESS
Absurdity. - HOARDING
A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work. Posted on every dead wall and hoarding. London Graphic. 2. A fence, barrier, or cover, inclosing, surrounding, or concealing something. The whole arrangement - EXTRAVAGANT
+ vagance, , p. pr. of vagari to wander, from vagus wandering, vague. 1. Wandering beyond one's bounds; roving; hence, foreign. The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine. Shak. 2. Exceeding due bounds; wild; excessive; unrestrained; - STORED
Collected or accumulated as a reserve supply; as, stored electricity. It is charged with stored virtue. Bagehot. - IMPROVIDENTLY
In a improvident manner. "Improvidently rash." Drayton. - SPARE
1. To use frugally or stintingly, as that which is scarce or valuable; to retain or keep unused; to save. "No cost would he spare." Chaucer. thy Father's dreadful thunder didst not spare. Milton. He that hath knowledge, spareth his words. Prov. - ABNORMAL
Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. "That deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. " Froude. - ARCHTREASURER
A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire. - TRANSPARENT
transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent - UPHOARD
To hoard up. Shak. - SLAVISH
Of or pertaining to slaves; such as becomes or befits a slave; servile; excessively laborious; as, a slavish life; a slavish dependance on the great. -- Slav"ish*ly, adv. -- Slav"ish*ness, n.