'Wastefully' definitions:
Definition of 'wastefully'
From: WordNet
adverb
To a wasteful manner or to a wasteful degree; "we are still prodigally rich compared to others" [syn: wastefully, prodigally]
Definition of 'Wastefully'
From: GCIDE
- Wasteful \Waste"ful\, a.
- 1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- In wilderness and wasteful desert strayed. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Lavish; profuse; prodigal; extravagant. [1913 Webster] -- {Waste"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Waste"ful*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'Wastefully'
- Wast,
- Waste,
- Wasted,
- Wasteful,
- Wastefulness,
- Wasteness,
- Wasting,
- Cop waste,
- Cotton waste,
- Impeachment of waste,
- Soda waste,
- To lay waste,
- Voluntary waste,
- Waste gate,
- Waste paper,
- Waste pipe,
- Waste steam,
- Waste trap,
- Wasting palsy,
- alkali waste,
- body waste,
- food waste,
- human waste,
- lay waste,
- lay waste to,
- laying waste,
- permissive waste,
- radioactive waste,
- toxic waste,
- waste away,
- waste basket,
- waste material,
- waste matter,
- waste of effort,
- waste of energy,
- waste of material,
- waste of money,
- waste of time,
- waste product,
- waste time,
- wasting away,
- wasting disease,
- chronic wasting disease,
- toxic industrial waste,
- toxic waste area,
- toxic waste dump,
- toxic waste site,
- waste one's time,
- waste-yard,
- waste-paper basket,
- high-level radioactive waste,
- low-level radioactive waste,
- blasted desolate desolated devastated ravaged ruined wasted