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浪费的,不经济的

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Wasteful \Waste"ful\, a.
   1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as,
      wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.

   2. Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which
      is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish;
      prodigal; as, a wasteful person; a wasteful disposition.

   3. Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled. [Obs.]

            In wilderness and wasteful desert strayed.
                                                  --Spenser.

   Syn: Lavish; profuse; prodigal; extravagant. --
        {Waste"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Waste"ful*ness}, n.

资料来源 : WordNet®

wasteful
     adj 1: inefficient in use of time and effort and materials; "a
            clumsy and wasteful process"; "wasteful duplication of
            effort"; "uneconomical ebb and flow of power" [syn: {uneconomical}]
     2: tending to squander and waste [ant: {thrifty}]
     3: laying waste; "when wasteful war shall statues overturn"-
        Shakespeare