wasteful
Someone who's wasteful uses and disposes of things carelessly. A wasteful child might eat two bites of yogurt and then throw the rest of the container away.
You can be wasteful with your money, spending too much of it on unimportant things. Some people are wasteful with food, ordering too much at a restaurant and leaving most of it on the plate. It's possible to be wasteful with almost anything that you squander without thinking about, including electricity or heat or even your own creative energy. The Latin root of waste is vastus, "empty or desolate."
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tending to squander and wastesynonyms:improvidentnot provident; not providing for the futurepound-foolishunwise in dealing with large sumsantonyms:thriftycareful and diligent in the use of resourcesprovidentproviding carefully for the futurepenny-wisethrifty in small matters onlysavingcharacterized by thriftiness
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inefficient in use of time and effort and materials“a clumsy and wasteful process”“wasteful duplication of effort”synonyms: uneconomicalinefficientnot producing desired results; wasteful
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laying waste“"when wasteful war shall statues overturn"- Shakespeare”synonyms:destructivecausing destruction or much damage
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