wasteful
adj/ˈweɪstfəl/
Etymology From Middle English wastful; equivalent to waste + -ful.
1
Inclined to waste or squander money or resources.
- As a narrative, competition of the type seen between the London Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS) and the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER) was seen as wasteful, with duplicate routes reflecting an unnecessary use of resources.2023 March 8, 'Industry Insider', “The Beeching legacy”, in RAIL, number 978, page 68:
2
Obsolete Uninhabited, desolate.
- Shortly vnto the vvaſtefull vvoods ſhe came, / VVhereas ſhe found the Goddeſſe vvith her crevv, […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 17, page 482:
- Derived terms
- wastefully, wastefulness