wasteful   (Sound)

The adj wasteful has 3 senses

• uneconomical, wasteful -- (inefficient in use of time and effort and materials; "a clumsy and wasteful process"; "wasteful duplication of effort"; "uneconomical ebb and flow of power")


• wasteful -- (tending to squander and waste)


• wasteful -- (laying waste; "when wasteful war shall statues overturn"- Shakespeare)