- (a.) 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.
- (a.) Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled.
- (a.) Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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