Similar Words

— destructive
— extravagant
— improvident
— inefficient
— pound-foolish
— prodigal
— profligate
— spendthrift
— uneconomic
— uneconomical
— washed up
— wastefulness
— weight for mooring a ship
— wished-for
— wistful

Misspelling

asteful, waasteful, wassteful, wasteeful, wastefful, wastefu, wastefull, wastefuul, wastephul, wastteful, watseful, wazteful, wwasteful

Wasteful — synonyms, wasteful antonyms, definition

1. wasteful (a)

25 synonyms

consuming devastating excessive exhausting exorbitant extortionate extravagant generous greedy harmful idle improvident lavish neglectful open-handed prodigal profligate profuse rapacious reckless • • •

2. wasteful (Adjective)

1 synonym

uneconomical

1 antonym

thrifty

3 definitions

wasteful (Adjective) — Inefficient in use of time and effort and materials. ex. "a clumsy and wasteful process" ex. "wasteful duplication of effort"

wasteful (Adjective) — Tending to squander and waste.

wasteful (Adjective) — Laying waste. ex. "when wasteful war shall statues overturn"