Another word for wasteful
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Adjective
Characterized by excessive or imprudent spending
- One who spends money recklessly or wastefully.
- Wasteful or extravagant:
- Plentiful; copious.
- Giving or given freely and abundantly; extravagant:
- Given to or characterized by licentiousness or dissipation:
- Given to or characterized by reckless waste; wildly extravagant:
- A profligate person.
- Rashly or wastefully extravagant:
- Giving or given in abundance; lavish or profuse:
- One who is given to wasteful luxury or extravagance.
- Characterized by or produced with extravagance and profusion:
- Immoderate in giving or bestowing; unstinting:
- To give or bestow in abundance; shower:
- Exceeding reasonable bounds:
- Unreasonably high in cost; exorbitant:
- Lavish or imprudent in spending money:
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Another word for wasteful
Modifier
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- Being or occurring beyond the designated boundaries, as of the playing area in a sport.
- Violating acceptable rules or standards, as of behavior.
- Causing or wreaking destruction; ruinous:
- Designed or tending to disprove or discredit:
- Bearing something valuable, especially a gift; provided with whatever is needed.
- Occurring, growing, or living in a natural state; not domesticated, cultivated, or tamed:
- Not inhabited or farmed:
- Uncivilized or barbarous.
- A gallant or chivalrous man, especially one serving as escort to a woman of high social position; a gentleman.
- A mounted soldier; a knight.
- A supporter of Charles I of England in his struggles against Parliament.
- Acting or done with a lack of care or caution; careless or irresponsible.
- Taking insufficient care; negligent:
- Marked by or resulting from lack of forethought or thoroughness:
- Showing a lack of consideration:
- Not providing for the future; thriftless.
- Rash; incautious.
- Plentiful; copious.
- Giving or given freely and abundantly; extravagant:
- Characterized by or produced with extravagance and profusion:
- Immoderate in giving or bestowing; unstinting:
- To give or bestow in abundance; shower:
- Careless in handling money; wasteful.
- Lacking usefulness or value.
- Not restrained; uncontrolled:
- Lacking normal voluntary control of excretory functions.
- Lacking sexual restraint; unchaste.
- generous to an excessive degree
- Exceeding normal or appropriate bounds; inordinate:
- Favoring reform, open to new ideas, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; not bound by traditional thinking; broad-minded.
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of liberalism.
- Of, designating, or characteristic of a political party founded on or associated with principles of social and political liberalism, especially in Great Britain, Canada, and the United States.
- Rashly or wastefully extravagant:
- Giving or given in abundance; lavish or profuse:
- One who is given to wasteful luxury or extravagance.
- Intemperate in the pursuit of pleasure; dissolute.
- Wasted or squandered.
- Irreversibly lost. Used of energy.
- Given to or characterized by licentiousness or dissipation:
- Given to or characterized by reckless waste; wildly extravagant:
- A profligate person.
- Exceeding reasonable bounds:
- Unreasonably high in cost; exorbitant:
- Lavish or imprudent in spending money:
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