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wastefulness

wastefulness noun: imprudent or excessive expenditure or the waste of resources.

Noun

wastefulness (countable and uncountable, plural wastefulnesses)

  1. imprudent or excessive expenditure or the waste of resources
    • Arsenal paid the price for that wastefulness when Chelsea took the lead after 14 minutes. Mata was afforded to much space by Santos and when the ponderous Per Mertesacker missed his cross Lampard timed his arrival perfectly to head past Wojciech Szczesny.2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport

Forms of wastefulness

pluralwastefulnesses

Origin of wastefulness

From Middle English wastfulnes; equivalent to wasteful + -ness.

Questions about wastefulness

What does wastefulness mean?
Wastefulness means imprudent or excessive expenditure or the waste of resources.
What part of speech is wastefulness?
Wastefulness is a noun.
What is the plural of wastefulness?
The plural of wastefulness is wastefulnesses.

Words near wastefulness in the dictionary

  1. wasted away
  2. wasted breath
  3. wasted time
  4. wasteful
  5. wastefully
  6. wastefulness
  7. wastefulnesses
  8. wastegal
  9. wastegals
  10. wastegash
  11. wastegate

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