- poor user of resources - Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as,
wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses. - 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. - Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled.