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wasteful (comparative more wasteful, superlative most wasteful)Category:English lemmas#WASTEFUL Category:English adjectives#WASTEFUL Category:English entries with incorrect language header#WASTEFUL Category:Pages with entries#WASTEFUL Category:Pages with 1 entry#WASTEFUL

Inclined to waste or squander money or resources.
Synonyms: prodigal, profligate; see also Thesaurus:prodigal

Antonym: unwasteful
- 2023 March 8, 'Industry Insider', “The Beeching legacy”, in RAIL, number 978, page 68:
  As a narrative, competition of the type seen between the London Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS) and the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER) was seen as wasteful, with duplicate routes reflecting an unnecessary use of resources.
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(obsolete Category:English terms with obsolete senses#WASTEFUL) Uninhabited, desolate.
Synonyms: deserted, peopleless; see also Thesaurus:uninhabited
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 17, page 482:
  Shortly vnto the vvaſtefull vvoods ſhe came, / VVhereas ſhe found the Goddeſſe vvith her crevv, […]
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inclined to waste — see also antieconomic