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English Dictionary: wastefully	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for wastefully
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wastefully adv to a wasteful manner or to a wasteful degree; "we are still prodigally rich compared to others" Synonym(s): wastefully, prodigally
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wasteful \Waste"ful\, a. 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. Syn: Lavish; profuse; prodigal; extravagant. -- {Waste"fully}, adv. -- {Waste"fulness}, n.