Wastefulness
1wastefulness — index consumption, misapplication, waste Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
2wastefulness — wasteful ► ADJECTIVE ▪ using or expending something carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose. DERIVATIVES wastefully adverb wastefulness noun …
3wastefulness — noun 1. useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste mindless dissipation of natural resources • Syn: ↑waste, ↑dissipation • Derivationally… …
4Wastefulness — Wasteful Waste ful, a. 1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses. [1913 Webster] 2. Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless… …
5wastefulness — noun see wasteful …
6wastefulness — See wastefully. * * * …
7wastefulness — noun imprudent or excessive expenditure or the waste of resources …
8wastefulness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Excessive or imprudent expenditure: extravagance, extravagancy, lavishness, prodigality, profligacy, profuseness, profusion, squander, waste. See CAREFUL, SAVE …
9wastefulness — waste·ful·ness || weɪstfÊŠlnɪs n. squandering, immoderation …
10wastefulness — waste·ful·ness …
