wasteful

English

Etymology

From waste +‎ -ful.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈweɪstfəl/
• Rhymes: -eɪstfəl

Adjective

wasteful (comparative more wasteful, superlative most wasteful)

1. Inclined to waste or squander money or resources.
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

inclined to waste

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 浪費 (cmn), 浪费 (cmn) (làngfèi)

• Dutch: verspillend (nl), verkwistend (nl)
• Finnish: tuhlaava (fi)

• German: verschwenderisch (de)
• Japanese: 不経済な (ja) (fukeizai na)
• Maori: tōtōa (mi)
• Polish: rozrzutny (pl)
• Russian: расточительный (ru) (rastočítel'nyj)

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