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All wasteful synonyms

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adjective wasteful

  • extravagant — Lacking restraint in spending money or using resources.
  • lavish — expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending.
  • uneconomical — avoiding waste or extravagance; thrifty: an economical meal; an economical use of interior space.
  • careless — If you are careless, you do not pay enough attention to what you are doing, and so you make mistakes, or cause harm or damage.
  • inefficient — not efficient; unable to effect or achieve the desired result with reasonable economy of means.
  • profligate — utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
  • improvident — not provident; lacking foresight; incautious; unwary.
  • spendthrift — a person who spends possessions or money extravagantly or wastefully; prodigal.
  • destructive — Something that is destructive causes or is capable of causing great damage, harm, or injury.
  • reckless — utterly unconcerned about the consequences of some action; without caution; careless (usually followed by of): to be reckless of danger.
  • cavalier — If you describe a person or their behaviour as cavalier, you are criticizing them because you think that they do not consider other people's feelings or take account of the seriousness of a situation.
  • dissipative — to scatter in various directions; disperse; dispel.
  • immoderate — not moderate; exceeding just or reasonable limits; excessive; extreme.
  • incontinent — unable to restrain natural discharges or evacuations of urine or feces.
  • liberal — favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
  • overdone — past participle of overdo.
  • overgenerous — liberal in giving or sharing; unselfish: a generous patron of the arts; a generous gift.
  • prodigal — wastefully or recklessly extravagant: prodigal expenditure.
  • profuse — spending or giving freely and in large amount, often to excess; extravagant (often followed by in): profuse praise.
  • ruinous — bringing or tending to bring ruin; destructive; disastrous: a ruinous war.
  • thriftless — without thrift; improvident; wasteful.
  • unthrifty — practicing thrift or economical management; frugal: a thrifty shopper.
  • wanton — done, shown, used, etc., maliciously or unjustifiably: a wanton attack; wanton cruelty.
  • wild — living in a state of nature; not tamed or domesticated: a wild animal; wild geese.
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