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wasteful
What does wasteful mean?
wasteful (adjective): inefficient in use of time and effort and materials.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use wasteful in a sentence?
- A clumsy and wasteful process. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
- Wasteful duplication of effort. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce wasteful?
/ˈweɪstfəl/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does wasteful come from?
From Middle English wastful; equivalent to waste + -ful.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “wasteful” mean?
having intervening factors or persons or influences
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with all parts included; with nothing missing; full
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inefficient in use of time and effort and materials
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at a higher physical position, level, rank or order
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