Wasteful

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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.

Synonyms: Lavish; profuse; prodigal; extravagant. Waste"ful*ly, adv. Waste"ful*ness, n.