| 单词 | wasteful |
| 释义 | wasteful (once / 2245 pages) 1adj 2adj Someone who's wasteful uses and disposes of things carelessly. A wasteful child might eat two bites of yogurt and then throw the rest of the container away. You can be wasteful with your money, spending too much of it on unimportant things. Some people are wasteful with food, ordering too much at a restaurant and leaving most of it on the plate. It's possible to be wasteful with almost anything that you squander without thinking about, including electricity or heat or even your own creative energy. The Latin root of waste is vastus, "empty or desolate." WORD FAMILYwasteful: wastefully, wastefulness+/wastage: wastages/waste: wastage, wasted, wasteful, waster, wastes, wasting/waster: wasters/wasting: wastings USAGE EXAMPLESBut it’s irresponsible to say that all city spending is bad or wasteful. Washington Times(Dec 26, 2016) It is wasteful, stupid and sets a terrible example to the world. The Guardian(Dec 23, 2016) Here are some ways to say bah humbug to these costly, wasteful ways and embrace a green Christmas in 2016. The Guardian(Dec 20, 2016) 1 1adj tending to squander and waste Syn|Ant improvident not provident; not providing for the future extravagant, prodigal, profligate, spendthriftrecklessly wasteful pound-foolishunwise in dealing with large sums uneconomic, uneconomicalwasteful of resources thrifty careful and diligent in the use of resources providentproviding carefully for the future economical, frugal, scotch, sparing, stintingavoiding waste penny-wisethrifty in small matters only savingcharacterized by thriftiness 2adj inefficient in use of time and effort and materials 2a clumsy and wasteful process wasteful duplication of effort Syn uneconomical inefficient not producing desired results; wasteful adj laying waste "when wasteful war shall statues overturn"- Shakespeare Syn destructive causing destruction or much damage |
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