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wasteful

adj
/ˈweɪstfəl/

Etymology

From Middle English wastful; equivalent to waste + -ful.

  1. inherited from wastful

Definitions

  1. 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.

  2. Uninhabited, desolate.

    • Shortly vnto the vvaſtefull vvoods ſhe came, / VVhereas ſhe found the Goddeſſe vvith her crevv, […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at wasteful. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01wasteful02waste03garbage04useless05good-for-nothing06little07limited08plentiful09prodigal10wastefully

A definitional loop anchored at wasteful. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at wasteful

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA