wasteful
The word “wasteful” has 2 syllables: waste-ful
It's pronounced as /ˈweɪst.fəl/
What is synonym and antonym for wasteful?
In the thesaurus, “wasteful” has 50 synonyms and 37 antonyms.
Here are synonyms and antonyms for wasteful along with examples of usage in sentences.
Synonyms for wasteful
- bighearted
- bountiful
- careless
- cavalier
- charitable
- destructive
- dissipative
- extravagant
- freehanded
- freehearted
- generous
- heedless
- high-rolling
- immoderate
- improvident
- imprudent
- incautious
- incontinent
- indulgent
- injudicious
- lavish
- liberal
- munificent
- myopic
- openhanded
- openhearted
- overdone
- overgenerous
- philanthropic
- philanthropical
- pound-foolish
- prodigal
- profligate
- profuse
- reckless
- ruinous
- self-indulgent
- shortsighted
- spendthrift
- splurging
- squandering
- thriftless
- uneconomical
- unselfish
- unsparing
- unstinting
- unthrifty
- unwise
- wanton
- wild
Antonyms for wasteful
- careful
- cautious
- cheap
- close
- closefisted
- conserving
- economical
- economizing
- farsighted
- forehanded
- foreseeing
- foresighted
- forethoughtful
- frugal
- judicious
- mean
- miserly
- niggardly
- parsimonious
- penny-pinching
- penurious
- pinching
- provident
- prudent
- saving
- scrimping
- sensible
- skimping
- spare
- sparing
- stingy
- stinting
- thrifty
- tight
- tightfisted
- unwasteful
- wise
Meanings of wasteful
- adjective
- Inclined to waste or squander money or resources.
- Uninhabited, desolate.
Example Sentences
- Leaving the tap running while brushing your teeth is wasteful.
- The company decided to cut down on wasteful spending.
- His wasteful habits led to unnecessary expenses.
- Throwing away leftovers is extremely wasteful.
- She criticized the wasteful use of electricity in the office.
On this page you'll find 87 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to wasteful, such as: bighearted, bountiful, careful, careless, cautious, cavalier, charitable.
Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.
Related Words
economical
- avaricious
- bare-bones
- bought for a song
- canny
- chary
- cheap
- circumspect
- close
- closefisted
- conserving
- cost next to nothing
- cost nothing
- cost-effective
- curmudgeonly
- cut-rate
- dime a dozen
- dirt-cheap
- dog cheap
- economizing
- efficient
- fair
- forehanded
- foresighted
- foresightful
- frugal
- low
- low tariff
- low-priced
- marked down
- meager
- mean
- methodical
- miserly
- moderate
- modest
- money-saving
- niggard
- niggardly
- on sale
- on the rims
- parsimonious
- penny-pinching
- penny-wise
- penurious
- pinching
- practical
- preserving
- provident
- prudent
- prudential
- quite a buy
- reasonable
- reduced
- saving
- scrimping
- skimping
- sound
- spare
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- steal
- stingy
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- thrifty
- tight
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- time-saving
- unwasteful
- watchful
- work-saving
waste
- amplitude
- annihilate
- arid
- assassinate
- atrophy
- attrition
- badland
- badlands
- baked
- bankrupted
- barren
- be of no avail
- beat
- best
- blast
- bleak
- blot out
- blow
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- bog
- boney
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- breadth
- break
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- brush
- brushland
- burn up
- bush
- butcher
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- compass
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- coprolite
- corrode
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- cream
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- dead
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- debilitate
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- debris
- decay
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- decomposition
- decrease
- deface
- defeat
- dehydrated
- demolish
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- depleted
- depredate
- depress
- depth
- desecrate
- desert
- desolate
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- destroy
- destruction
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- detritus
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- dilapidation
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- dirt
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- disassemble
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- discard
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- dispatch
- dissipate
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- dissolve
- distance
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- domain
- doo-doo
- drain
- drained
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- dried-up
- droop
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- droughty
- drub
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- dump
- dung
- dunghill
- dust
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- dynamite
- eat away
- ebb
- efface
- effluvia
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- emaciate
- emptiness
- empty
- enervate
- enfeeble
- enfeebled
- eradicate
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- erosion
- etiolate
- excess
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- excreta
- execute
- exhaust
- exhausted
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- expanse
- expansion
- expend
- expended
- expenditure
- expunge
- extension
- extent
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- extinguish
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- extravagance
- fade
- feces
- fell
- fen
- fiddle away
- field
- flotsam
- fritter
- fritter away
- frivol away
- gamble away
- gamut
- garbage
- gnaw
- go to waste
- guano
- gut
- hamstring
- hand-me-down
- hardscrabble
- harm
- havoc
- heath
- hogwash
- hurt
- immensity
- immoderacy
- impair
- impoverish
- impoverished
- improvidence
- incapacitate
- indulge
- indulgence
- infertile
- inhospitable
- injure
- invalid
- jetsam
- jungle
- junk
- kill
- kill off
- latitude
- lavish
- lavishness
- lay out
- lay up
- lay waste
- leavings
- leftovers
- length
- lessened
- lick
- lifeless
- liquidate
- litter
- loot
- lose
- loss
- lost opportunity
- lumber
- luxury
- magnitude
- make ducks and drakes of
- mangle
- manure
- mar
- marsh
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- massacre
- master
- midden
- misapplication
- misapply
- misemploy
- misspend
- misuse
- moor
- muck
- murder
- mutilate
- nature
- night soil
- nothing
- nuke
- obliterate
- odds and ends
- offal
- offscouring
- offscourings
- open
- open air
- ordure
- out-of-doors
- outdoors
- overbear
- overcome
- overdoing
- overindulge
- overindulgence
- overkill
- overmatch
- overspend
- paralyze
- parched
- perish
- pillage
- plain
- play ducks and drakes with
- plunder
- poop
- poor
- pour down the drain
- prodigality
- profligacy
- profusion
- prostrate
- pull down
- pulverize
- quagmire
- raffle
- rainless
- range
- rape
- ravage
- raze
- reach
- reduce
- reduced
- refuse
- reject
- remains
- remove
- riffraff
- rout
- rub out
- rubbish
- rubble
- ruin
- ruins
- rummage
- run dry
- run through
- sack
- sap
- scale
- scat
- scope
- scotch
- scour
- scrap
- scrap heap
- sear
- self-indulgence
- sere
- sewage
- sewerage
- shatter
- sheet
- shoot
- sink
- skunk
- slaughter
- slay
- slop
- slops
- smash
- soften
- soil
- solitude
- span
- spectrum
- spend
- spent
- sphere
- spilth
- splurge
- spoil
- spoliate
- spoor
- spread
- squander
- squandering
- stark
- stool
- straw
- stretch
- subdue
- sunbaked
- surmount
- swamp
- sweep
- sweepings
- swill
- take down
- take out
- tear down
- territory
- thin
- thirsty
- thrash
- throw away
- throwaway
- tire
- total
- trample
- trash
- trifle away
- trim
- trounce
- truck
- trumpery
- tundra
- two bits
- unbuild
- uncultivable
- undermine
- undermining
- undo
- unfertile
- unmake
- unman
- unproductive
- unthriftiness
- untillable
- used up
- vandalize
- vaporize
- vitiate
- void
- wallop
- wane
- wash
- wash out
- wastage
- wastefulness
- wasteland
- waterless
- weaken
- wear
- wear down
- wear out
- whip
- wild
- wilderness
- wilds
- wilt
- wipe out
- wither
- wrack
- wreak havoc
- wreck
- wreckage
- zap
wastage
- annihilation
- assassination
- breakup
- collapse
- decay
- decimation
- demolishment
- demolition
- depredation
- desolation
- despoilment
- despoliation
- destruction
- devastation
- diffusion
- dilapidation
- disintegration
- dismantlement
- dispersal
- dispersion
- dissemination
- dissipation
- dissolution
- distribution
- disuse
- effacement
- emission
- eradication
- execution
- exhaustion
- expenditure
- extermination
- extinction
- extravagance
- fritter
- havoc
- improvidence
- killing
- lavishness
- loss
- lost opportunity
- massacre
- mincemeat
- misapplication
- misuse
- obliteration
- overdoing
- prodigality
- radiation
- ravage
- ruin
- ruination
- scattering
- slaughter
- spread
- squander
- squandering
- unthriftiness
- vanishing
- waste
- wastefulness
- wreckage
lavishly
- affably
- affluently
- altruistically
- amiably
- amply
- beneficently
- benevolently
- bigheartedly
- bounteously
- bountifully
- charitably
- cheerfully
- cheerily
- comfortably
- congenially
- considerately
- cordially
- courteously
- expensively
- extravagantly
- fatly
- fine
- foolishly
- freehandedly
- freeheartedly
- friendlily
- generously
- genially
- good-heartedly
- good-naturedly
- graciously
- grandiosely
- grandly
- greatly
- handsomely
- high
- hospitably
- humanely
- immoderately
- imposingly
- impressively
- indulgently
- intemperately
- kindheartedly
- kindly
- large
- liberally
- luxuriously
- magnanimously
- magnificently
- munificently
- nicely
- openhandedly
- opulently
- ostentatiously
- palatially
- philanthropically
- plentifully
- plushly
- pompously
- pretentiously
- prodigally
- reasonably
- richly
- selflessly
- splendidly
- sumptuously
- sweetly
- thoughtfully
- ungrudgingly
- unselfishly
- unstintingly
- wantonly
- wastefully
- wealthily
- well
magnificently
- affluently
- beautifully
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- expensively
- extravagantly
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- fine
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- high
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- imposingly
- impressively
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- ostentatiously
- palatially
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- sumptuously
- superbly
- wantonly
- wastefully
- wealthily
- wonderfully