adjective
- Inefficient in use of time and effort and materials.
- usage: "a clumsy and wasteful process"; "wasteful duplication of effort"; "uneconomical ebb and flow of power"
- synonyms: wasteful
- Wasteful of resources.
- synonyms: uneconomic
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