wastefulness

The word “wastefulness” has 3 syllables: waste-ful-ness

It's pronounced as /ˈweɪst.fəl.nəs/


What is synonym and antonym for wastefulness?

In the thesaurus, “wastefulness” has 43 synonyms and 8 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for wastefulness along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for wastefulness

  • absurdity
  • amenity
  • bountifulness
  • conspicuous consumption
  • dissipation
  • exaggeration
  • excess
  • exorbitance
  • expenditure
  • extravagance
  • extravagancy
  • folly
  • frill
  • generosity
  • icing on the cake
  • immoderacy
  • immoderation
  • improvidence
  • indulgence
  • lavishness
  • liberality
  • luxury
  • outrageousness
  • overdoing
  • overindulgence
  • overkill
  • overspending
  • preposterousness
  • prodigality
  • profligacy
  • profuseness
  • profusion
  • recklessness
  • self-indulgence
  • splurge
  • squander
  • squandering
  • superfluity
  • unreasonableness
  • unrestraint
  • unthrift
  • waste
  • wildness

Antonyms for wastefulness

  • austerity
  • economy
  • frugality
  • lack
  • moderation
  • penny-pinching
  • restraint
  • temperance

Example Sentences

  • His wastefulness led to unnecessary expenses every month.
  • The company's wastefulness resulted in high production costs.
  • She was scolded for her wastefulness with food and water.
  • Reducing wastefulness is essential for protecting the environment.
  • The government launched a campaign to raise awareness about wastefulness.

On this page you'll find 51 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to wastefulness, such as: absurdity, amenity, austerity, bountifulness, conspicuous consumption, dissipation, economy.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

immoderation

  • abandonment
  • absurdity
  • affluence
  • alcoholism
  • allowance
  • amenity
  • anarchy
  • animalism
  • appeasement
  • arbitrariness
  • arrogance
  • attention
  • audacity
  • babying
  • bias
  • bigotry
  • bliss
  • boldness
  • coddling
  • comfort
  • complacency
  • contumacy
  • courtesy
  • debauchery
  • dedication
  • delight
  • devotion
  • disorder
  • dissipation
  • dissoluteness
  • dissolution
  • dogma
  • drunkenness
  • effrontery
  • endurance
  • enjoyment
  • enthusiasm
  • exaggeration
  • excess
  • excessiveness
  • exorbitance
  • expenditure
  • extravagance
  • extravagancy
  • extreme
  • extremism
  • extremity
  • faction
  • favor
  • favoring
  • folly
  • fondling
  • fondness
  • forbearance
  • forwardness
  • frenzy
  • frill
  • fulfillment
  • gluttony
  • goodwill
  • gratification
  • gratifying
  • hatred
  • hedonism
  • high living
  • icing on the cake
  • immoderacy
  • impropriety
  • improvidence
  • incorrigibility
  • indulgence
  • infatuation
  • injustice
  • inordinateness
  • insobriety
  • intemperance
  • intemperateness
  • intolerance
  • irrationality
  • irresponsibility
  • kindness
  • kowtowing
  • lavishness
  • lawlessness
  • laxity
  • leisure
  • lenience
  • leniency
  • libertinism
  • licentiousness
  • looseness
  • luxuriousness
  • luxury
  • madness
  • monomania
  • nimiety
  • obsessiveness
  • obstinacy
  • opulence
  • outrageousness
  • overdoing
  • overindulgence
  • overspending
  • pampering
  • partiality
  • partisanship
  • passion
  • patience
  • permissiveness
  • petting
  • placating
  • pleasing
  • prejudice
  • preposterousness
  • presumptuousness
  • privilege
  • prodigality
  • profligacy
  • profligateness
  • profuseness
  • profusion
  • radicalism
  • rage
  • rarity
  • recklessness
  • refractoriness
  • relaxation
  • relaxedness
  • richness
  • satiation
  • satisfaction
  • saturnalia
  • sauciness
  • self-indulgence
  • sensuality
  • service
  • single-mindedness
  • slackness
  • splendor
  • spoiling
  • squander
  • squandering
  • stubbornness
  • sumptuousness
  • superfluity
  • superstition
  • temerity
  • tenacity
  • toadying
  • tolerance
  • toleration
  • transport
  • treat
  • treating
  • understanding
  • unfairness
  • unreasonableness
  • unrestraint
  • unruliness
  • unthrift
  • violence
  • wantonness
  • waste
  • wastefulness
  • well-being
  • wildness
  • willfulness
  • zeal
  • zealotry

largesse

  • all heart
  • allowance
  • alms
  • alms-giving
  • altruism
  • assistance
  • award
  • benefaction
  • beneficence
  • benefit
  • benevolence
  • bequest
  • bestowal
  • big-heartedness
  • bigheartedness
  • bonus
  • boon
  • bounteousness
  • bountifulness
  • bounty
  • box
  • care package
  • charitableness
  • charity
  • comp
  • contribution
  • courtesy
  • dispensation
  • dissipating
  • dole
  • donation
  • donative
  • dowry
  • endowment
  • extravagance
  • fairing
  • favor
  • foy
  • free giving
  • freebee
  • freebie
  • freehandedness
  • fringe benefit
  • fund
  • generosity
  • generousness
  • gift
  • gifting
  • giveaway
  • goodie
  • goodness
  • grant
  • gratuity
  • grease palm
  • great-heartedness
  • hand
  • hand-me-down
  • handout
  • handsel
  • heart
  • helping hand
  • high-mindedness
  • honorarium
  • hospitality
  • improvidence
  • kindliness
  • kindness
  • lagniappe
  • large-heartedness
  • lavishness
  • legacy
  • libation
  • liberality
  • little something
  • magnanimity
  • magnanimousness
  • munificence
  • nobleness
  • oblation
  • offering
  • offertory
  • openhandedness
  • openheartedness
  • perk
  • perquisite
  • philanthropy
  • pittance
  • premium
  • present
  • presentation
  • prize
  • prodigality
  • profusion
  • propine
  • provision
  • ration
  • readiness
  • recompense
  • relief
  • remembrance
  • remittance
  • reward
  • sacrifice
  • salve
  • selflessness
  • souvenir
  • spendthrift
  • squandering
  • subscription
  • subsidy
  • sweetener
  • tax benefit
  • tax write-off
  • tip
  • tithe
  • token
  • tribute
  • unselfishness
  • unsparingness
  • valentine
  • wastefulness
  • windfall
  • write-off

waste

  • amplitude
  • annihilate
  • arid
  • assassinate
  • atrophy
  • attrition
  • badland
  • badlands
  • baked
  • bankrupted
  • barren
  • be of no avail
  • beat
  • best
  • blast
  • bleak
  • blot out
  • blow
  • blow up
  • bog
  • boney
  • bony
  • breadth
  • break
  • break down
  • breakdown
  • brush
  • brushland
  • burn up
  • bush
  • butcher
  • castoff
  • chaff
  • clobber
  • compass
  • conquer
  • consume
  • consumed
  • coprolite
  • corrode
  • corrosion
  • cream
  • cripple
  • crud
  • crumble
  • crush
  • cull
  • cut down
  • damage
  • dead
  • deadwood
  • debilitate
  • debilitated
  • debris
  • decay
  • decimate
  • decline
  • decomposition
  • decrease
  • deface
  • defeat
  • dehydrated
  • demolish
  • deplete
  • depleted
  • depredate
  • depress
  • depth
  • desecrate
  • desert
  • desolate
  • desolation
  • despoil
  • destroy
  • destruction
  • deteriorate
  • detritus
  • devastate
  • devastation
  • devitalize
  • devour
  • dilapidate
  • dilapidation
  • diminished
  • dirt
  • disable
  • disappear
  • disassemble
  • disburse
  • discard
  • disfigure
  • disintegrate
  • disintegration
  • dismantle
  • dispatch
  • dissipate
  • dissipation
  • dissolution
  • dissolve
  • distance
  • disuse
  • divert
  • do in
  • domain
  • doo-doo
  • drain
  • drained
  • dreck
  • dregs
  • drek
  • dried-up
  • droop
  • dropping
  • dross
  • droughty
  • drub
  • dry
  • dump
  • dung
  • dunghill
  • dust
  • dust bowl
  • dynamite
  • eat away
  • ebb
  • efface
  • effluvia
  • effluvium
  • emaciate
  • emptiness
  • empty
  • enervate
  • enfeeble
  • enfeebled
  • eradicate
  • erode
  • erosion
  • etiolate
  • excess
  • excrement
  • excreta
  • execute
  • exhaust
  • exhausted
  • exhaustion
  • expanse
  • expansion
  • expend
  • expended
  • expenditure
  • expunge
  • extension
  • extent
  • exterminate
  • extinguish
  • extirpate
  • 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
  • marshland
  • 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

largess

  • aid
  • alms
  • altruistic
  • award
  • benefaction
  • beneficence
  • benevolence
  • benevolent
  • bequest
  • bestowal
  • bigheartedness
  • bonus
  • boon
  • bountifulness
  • bounty
  • box
  • care package
  • charitable
  • charity
  • comp
  • contribution
  • courtesy
  • dissipating
  • dole
  • donation
  • donative
  • dowry
  • endowment
  • extravagance
  • fairing
  • favor
  • foy
  • freebee
  • freebie
  • generosity
  • generous
  • generousness
  • gift
  • giveaway
  • giving
  • grant
  • gratuity
  • handout
  • handsel
  • improvidence
  • kindliness
  • kindness
  • lagniappe
  • lavishness
  • legacy
  • liberality
  • munificence
  • oblation
  • offering
  • openhandedness
  • openheartedness
  • philanthropy
  • present
  • presentation
  • prize
  • prodigality
  • propine
  • remembrance
  • reward
  • sacrifice
  • selflessness
  • spendthrift
  • squandering
  • subsidy
  • thoughtful
  • tip
  • tithe
  • tribute
  • unselfishness
  • valentine
  • wastefulness
  • windfall

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