Adjective: wasteful weyst-ful
- Inefficient in use of time and effort and materials
"a clumsy and wasteful process"; "wasteful duplication of effort";
- uneconomical
- Tending to squander and waste
"His wasteful spending habits quickly depleted his inheritance"
- Laying waste
"when wasteful war shall statues overturn"
See also: destructive, extravagant, improvident, inefficient, pound-foolish, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift, uneconomic, uneconomical
Antonym: thrifty
Encyclopedia: Wasteful