Associations to the word «Wasteful»

Wiktionary

WASTEFUL, adjective. Inclined to waste or squander money or resources.
WASTEFUL, adjective. (obsolete) Uninhabited, desolate.

Dictionary definition

WASTEFUL, adjective. Inefficient in use of time and effort and materials; "a clumsy and wasteful process"; "wasteful duplication of effort"; "uneconomical ebb and flow of power".
WASTEFUL, adjective. Tending to squander and waste.
WASTEFUL, adjective. Laying waste; "when wasteful war shall statues overturn"- Shakespeare.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne