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wasteful (iou) and TESL (oh)


wasteful (iou)



wasteful adjective. ME.
[from WASTE noun + -FUL.]
That causes devastation, desolation, or ruin; that destroys or lays waste something. Now rare or obsolete exc. as passing into sense 5. ME.
Useless, worthless; unused; (of desires, words, etc.) empty, profitless; (of time) unoccupied, spare. LME-L16.
Of a person, a style of living, etc.: given to or characterized by waste or useless or excessive expenditure; uneconomical, extravagant. Cf. WASTY 1. LME.
Of a place: desolate, unfrequented, uninhabited. Now arch. poet. LME.
Of a person, an action, a process, etc.: that wastes, consumes, or expends unprofitably something specified or implied; not economical. (Foll. by of.) LME.
That causes bodily wasting or emaciation. Now rare. E17.
wastefully adverb LME.
wastefulness noun L15.

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