資料來源 : pyDict
糟蹋地;不經濟地
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Waste"ful*ness}, n.
資料來源 : WordNet®
wastefully
adv : to a wasteful manner or to a wasteful degree; "we are still
prodigally rich compared to others" [syn: {prodigally}]