Wasteful Synonyms and Antonyms

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Characterized by excessive or imprudent spending
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. prodigal
  2. extravagant
  3. profligate
  4. lavish
  5. immoderate
  6. careless
  7. improvident
  8. profuse
  9. thriftless
  10. unthrifty
  11. spendthrift
  12. costly
  13. dissipated
  14. liberal
  15. overgenerous
  16. incontinent
  17. squandering
  18. reckless
  19. uneconomical
  20. cavalier
  21. wild
  22. full-handed
  23. without stint
  24. improvident infrugal
  25. destructive
  26. with money to burn
  27. easy come easy go
  28. out-of-bounds
Antonyms:
  1. thrifty
  2. economical
  3. unwasteful
  4. stingy
  5. miserly
  6. tightfisted

Words Related to Wasteful

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Wasteful Sentence Examples

  • That seems kind of wasteful.

  • It is terribly wasteful to have a television on serving as a clock.

  • Pitt's debts were the result of a wasteful indifference to his private affairs.

  • The Party has launched a review of public spending, under David James, which aims to identify wasteful spending across the public sector.

  • The practice of capturing them in pitfalls is discouraged as cruel and wasteful.

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