wasteful

English

From Middle English wastful; equivalent to waste +‎ -ful.

wasteful (comparative more wasteful, superlative most wasteful)

Inclined to waste or squander money or resources.
Synonyms: prodigal, profligate

Antonym: unwasteful
(obsolete) Uninhabited, desolate.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, stanza 17, page 482:
  Shortly vnto the vvaſtefull vvoods ſhe came, / VVhereas ſhe found the Goddeſſe vvith her crevv, […]

inclined to waste

Azerbaijani: bədxərc, israfcıl
Bulgarian: разточителен (bg) (raztočitelen), прахоснически (prahosničeski)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 浪費／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
Italian: prodigo (it)
Japanese: 不経済な (fukeizai na)
Latin: prōdigus
Maori: tōtōa, ngutuhore
Polish: rozrzutny (pl)
Portuguese: desperdiçador
Romanian: risipitor (ro)
Russian: расточи́тельный (ru) (rastočítelʹnyj)
Spanish: derrochador (es), antieconómico (es)
Swedish: slösaktig (sv)
Ukrainian: марнотратний m (marnotratnyj), розтратливий m (roztratlyvyj)
Westrobothnian: obyggjen, ösksam

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