All wasteful synonyms
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W w 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.