Waste"ful (?), c. 1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as; wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.
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.
3. Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled. [Obs.]
In wilderness and wasteful desert strayed.
Spenser.
Syn. -- Lavish; profuse; prodigal; extravagant.
-- Waste"ful*ly, adv. -- Waste"ful*ness, n.
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