wastfull
wastfull is the obsolete form of wasteful.
Meaning of wasteful
Adjective
wasteful (comparative more wasteful, superlative most wasteful)
- 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
- Synonyms:
- prodigal, profligate, extravagant, improvident, imprudent, lavish, loose-handed, reckless, spendthrift, squandering
- Antonyms:
- unwasteful
- 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
- Synonyms:
- deserted, peopleless, beingless, desert, howling, desolate, disinhabited, inhabitantless, inhabited, lifeless
Forms of wastfull
| comparative | more wastfull |
|---|---|
| superlative | most wastfull |
Questions about wastfull
- What is wastfull the obsolete form of?
- Wastfull is the obsolete form of wasteful.
Words near wastfull in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: wastfull (page history and authors); wasteful (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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