'Wastefulness' definitions:
Definition of 'wastefulness'
From: WordNet
noun
The trait of wasting resources; "a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste"; "the wastefulness of missed opportunities" [syn: thriftlessness, waste, wastefulness]
noun
Useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly; "if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste"; "mindless dissipation of natural resources" [syn: waste, wastefulness, dissipation]
Definition of 'Wastefulness'
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 'Wastefulness'
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- Wasteness,
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- Cop waste,
- Cotton waste,
- Impeachment of waste,
- Soda waste,
- To lay waste,
- Voluntary waste,
- Waste gate,
- Waste paper,
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- Waste trap,
- Wasting palsy,
- alkali waste,
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- permissive waste,
- radioactive waste,
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- toxic industrial waste,
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- waste one's time,
- waste-yard,
- waste-paper basket,
- high-level radioactive waste,
- low-level radioactive waste,
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