Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Wasteful

Wasteful , adjective

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. [Obsolete]
In wilderness and wasteful desert strayed. — Spenser