wasteful

wasteful

English

Etymology

From Middle English wastful; equivalent to waste +‎ -ful.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈweɪstfəl/

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• Rhymes: -eɪstfəl

Adjective

wasteful (comparative more wasteful, superlative most wasteful)

1. Inclined to waste or squander money or resources.

   Synonyms: prodigal, profligate

   Antonym: unwasteful

2. (obsolete) Uninhabited, desolate.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, stanza 17, page 482:

     Shortly vnto the vvaſtefull vvoods ſhe came, / VVhereas ſhe found the Goddeſſe vvith her crevv, […]

Translations

inclined to waste

Azerbaijani: bədxərc, israfcıl Bulgarian: разточителен (bg) (raztočitelen), прахоснически (prahosničeski) Chinese: Mandarin: 浪費／浪费 (zh) (làngfèi) Dutch: verspillend (nl), verkwistend (nl) Finnish: tuhlaava (fi) French: dépensier (fr), gaspilleur (fr), dilapidateur (fr) German: verschwenderisch (de) Irish: caifeach, caiteach, diomailteach, drabhlásach, scabáistiúil, vástúil Old Irish: díblásach, dimbailech, dombuilech Italian: prodigo (it) Japanese: 不経済な (fukeizai na) Latin: prōdigus Maori: tōtōa, ngutuhore Polish: rozrzutny (pl) Portuguese: desperdiçador Romanian: risipitor (ro) Russian: расточи́тельный (ru) (rastočítelʹnyj) Spanish: derrochador (es), antieconómico (es) Swedish: slösaktig (sv) Ukrainian: марнотратний m (marnotratnyj), розтратливий m (roztratlyvyj) Westrobothnian: obyggjen, ösksam

Anagrams

• awfulest, sweatful