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wasterful

wasterful adjective: wasteful.

Adjective

wasterful (comparative more wasterful, superlative most wasterful)

  1. (obsolete) wasteful

Forms of wasterful

comparativemore wasterful
superlativemost wasterful

Origin of wasterful

From waster (“to be a waster, waste”) + -ful.

Questions about wasterful

What does wasterful mean?
Wasterful means wasteful.
What part of speech is wasterful?
Wasterful is an adjective.

Words near wasterful in the dictionary

  1. wastepapers
  2. wastepile
  3. wastepiles
  4. wasteproof
  5. waster
  6. wasterful
  7. wasters
  8. wastery
  9. wastes
  10. wastes away
  11. wastes breath

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