What is another word for wasteful?
324 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ wˈe͡ɪstfə͡l], [ wˈeɪstfəl], [ w_ˈeɪ_s_t_f_əl]Table of Contents
Similar words for wasteful:- all (adjective)
- careless (adjective)
- destructive (adjective)
- exorbitant (adjective)
- improvident (adjective)
- inordinate (adjective)
- lavish (adjective)
- not economical (adjective)
- ruinous (adjective)
- unthrifty (adjective)
- wanton (adjective)
- wasteful (adjective)
- destructive (noun)
- extravagant (noun)
- inefficient (noun)
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Synonyms for Wasteful:
adj.
•all (adjective) •careless (adjective)- in-different,
- un circumspect,
- offhand,
- in-considerate,
- in cautious,
- napping,
- most pococurante,
- in-judicious,
- in-cautious,
- un-thinking,
- unheeding,
- most napping,
- un-heeding,
- in discreet,
- more uncircumspect,
- dis regardful,
- injudicious,
- in accurate,
- un observant,
- in-advertent,
- unguarded,
- in judicious,
- in-discreet,
- un reflective,
- un-reflective,
- reckless,
- mindless,
- un heeding,
- un-circumspect,
- un thinking,
- most uncircumspect,
- un guarded,
- indolent,
- dis-regardful,
- un concerned,
- in advertent,
- un mindful,
- in different,
- more unreflective,
- unmindful,
- un-mindful,
- un-concerned,
- un-guarded,
- more pococurante,
- more napping,
- lax,
- in-accurate,
- most unreflective,
- in considerate,
- un-observant.
- over one head,
- un duest,
- over-much,
- un reasonable,
- out sight,
- most overboard,
- un-conscionable,
- priciest,
- un warranted,
- ex-acting,
- un-duer,
- most absonant,
- un conscionable,
- un-warranted,
- over much,
- un-reasonable,
- towering,
- over board,
- over-board,
- more overboard,
- un-duest,
- un-due,
- ex-pensive,
- un duer,
- more absonant,
- ex pensive,
- out of sight,
- over ones head,
- unwarranted,
- ex acting,
- un due,
- pricier.
- more unstinging,
- unsparing,
- most unstinging,
- co-pious,
- co pious,
- un sparing,
- un stinging,
- most profusive,
- un-sparing,
- more profusive,
- un-stinging,
- munificent.
n.
•destructive (noun) •extravagant (noun) •inefficient (noun)Other synonyms:
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- waster,
- inexpedient.
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- save.
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- moderate.
- extravagantly,
- extend,
- splendidly,
- short-sighted,
- lavishness,
- catastrophic,
- boast,
- ineffective,
- plentifully,
- plenteously,
- achieve,
- ingestion,
- devastating,
- carelessly,
- completely,
- expend,
- consumption,
- demolitionary,
- exhaustion,
- wastrel,
- negligent,
- expenditure,
- Overlavish,
- Overliberal,
- wastage,
- suicidal,
- profusely,
- entirely,
- disburse,
- ravaging,
- extravagance,
- outlay,
- deadly,
- bountifully,
- worthless,
- ruining,
- extreme,
- exuberantly,
- disbursement,
- inefficacious,
- purposeless,
- cataclysmic,
- obtain,
- Open-handed,
- Fratricidal,
- fully,
- lavishly,
- expense,
- sumptuously,
- attain,
- Free-handed,
- intemperate,
- pass,
- bootless,
- consuming,
- ineffectual,
- unavailing,
- vain,
- happy-go-lucky,
- prodigality,
- productively,
- extremely,
- Losel,
- unrewarding,
- usance,
- fateful,
- bounteously,
- slipshod,
- Destroying,
- exaggerated,
- beautifully,
- preciously,
- Vandalic,
- Doomful,
- fatal,
- dissipation,
- fritter,
- tumbledown,
- liberally,
- incompetent,
- subversive,
- profligacy,
- prodigally,
- consume,
- wasting,
- lushly,
- put on,
- Desolating,
- opulently,
- make,
- unremunerative,
- withering,
- fruitfully,
- vandalistic,
- expenses,
- amplify,
- absorb,
- lazy,
- go,
- unproductive,
- irresponsible,
- calamitous,
- impractical,
- freely,
- spend,
- Subversionary,
- exaggerate,
- unprofitable,
- nihilistic,
- excessive,
- immoderately,
- loosely,
- profusion,
- self-destructive,
- richly,
- vividly,
- unreasonable,
- inadequate,
- non-productive,
- inefficiently,
- generously,
- demolishing,
- profitless,
- harmful,
- Lavisher,
- wastefulness,
- futile,
- dissipate,
- waste,
- useless,
- get,
- incautiously,
- nihilist,
- cost,
- fruitless,
- loss,
- entertainingly,
- cataclysmal,
- internecine,
- reach,
- baneful,
- intemperately,
- time-consuming,
- squander,
- abundantly,
- improvidently,
- disastrous,
- pointless,
- thriftlessness,
- sisyphean,
- squanderer,
- gorgeously,
- Affluently,
- imprudent,
- excessively,
- accomplish,
- charge,
- copiously,
- supererogatory,
- Depredatory,
- Fertilely,
- overtake,
- free-spending,
- uneconomic,
- phthisis,
- laying waste,
- wastefully,
- time-wasting,
- exhausting,
- disorganized.
Paraphrases for Wasteful:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
profligate, uneconomical.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
useless, uneconomic, futile, pointless, unhelpful, fruitless, unprofitable, ineffective, worthless, needless, ineffectual, meaningless, redundant, anti-economic, sterile.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
extravagant, wastage, unnecessary, superfluous, inefficient, costly, expensive, excessive.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Wasteful:
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adj.
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all
thrifty.
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not economical
economical, saving, careful, cautious, unwasteful.
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Other antonyms:
conserving, Skimping, judicious, Pinching, farsighted, forehanded, prudent, mean, wise, foreseeing, constructive, sensible, forethoughtful, niggardly, foresighted.
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all