wasteful

English

Etymology

From waste +‎ -ful.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈweɪstfəl/
Rhymes: -eɪstfəl

Adjective

wasteful (comparative more wasteful, superlative most wasteful)

Inclined to waste or squander money or resources.
(obsolete) Uninhabited, desolate.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.6:
  Shortly unto the wastefull woods she came, / Whereas she found the Goddesse with her crew [...].

Translations

inclined to waste

Chinese:
Mandarin: 浪費 (zh), 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
Japanese: 不経済な (fukeizai na)

Latin: prōdigus
Maori: tōtōa, ngutuhore
Polish: rozrzutny (pl)
Portuguese: desperdiçador
Russian: расточи́тельный (ru) (rastočítelʹnyj)
Spanish: derrochador (es), antieconómico (es)
Swedish: slösaktig (sv)
Westrobothnian: obyggjen, ösksam

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