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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
baneful, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consuming, consumptive, deadly, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destroying, destructive, devastating, disastrous, dissipative, doomful, easy come, easy go, extravagant, fatal, fateful, fratricidal, incontinent, intemperate, internecine, lavish, nihilist, nihilistic, overgenerous, overlavish, overliberal, penny-wise and pound-foolish, pound-foolish, prodigal, profligate, profuse, ravaging, ruining, ruinous, self-destructive, spendthrift, subversionary, subversive, suicidal, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, wasting, withering
Dictionary Results for wasteful:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
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, wasteful]
    2: tending to squander and waste [ant: thrifty]
    3: laying waste; "when wasteful war shall statues overturn"-
       Shakespeare

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Wasteful \Waste"ful\, a.
   1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as,
      wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.
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   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.
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   3. Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled. [Obs.]
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            In wilderness and wasteful desert strayed.
                                                  --Spenser.
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   Syn: Lavish; profuse; prodigal; extravagant.
        [1913 Webster] -- Waste"ful*ly, adv. --
        Waste"ful*ness, n.
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