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wasteful 音標拼音: [w'estfəl] a. 浪費的,不經濟的 浪費的,不經濟的 wasteful adj 1: inefficient in use of time and effort and materials; " a clumsy and wasteful process"; " wasteful duplication of effort"; " uneconomical ebb and flow of power" [ synonym: { uneconomical}, { wasteful}] 2: tending to squander and waste [ ant: { thrifty}] 3: laying waste; " when wasteful war shall statues overturn"- ShakespeareWasteful \ 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] 51 Moby Thesaurus words for " wasteful": baneful, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consuming, consumptive, deadly, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destroying, destructive, devastating, disastrous, dissipative, doomful, easy come, easy go, extravagant, fatal, fateful, fratricidal, incontinent, intemperate, internecine, lavish, nihilist, nihilistic, overgenerous, overlavish, overliberal, penny- wise and pound- foolish, pound- foolish, prodigal, profligate, profuse, ravaging, ruining, ruinous, self- destructive, spendthrift, subversionary, subversive, suicidal, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, wasting, withering
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