英文英文字典
英文英文字典
古腾堡计划中的在线英语-英语词典
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Wasteful
(a.)
Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as,
wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.
Wasteful
(a.)
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.
Wasteful
(a.)
Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled.
Wastel
(n.)
A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also
wastel bread, and wastel cake.
Wasteness
(n.)
The quality or state of being waste; a desolate state or
condition; desolation.
Wasteness
(n.)
That which is waste; a desert; a waste.
Waster
(v. t.)
One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one
who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal.
Waster
(v. t.)
An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to
waste; -- called also a thief.
Waster
(v. t.)
A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a
foil.
Wastethrift
(n.)
A spendthrift.
Wasteweir
(n.)
An overfall, or weir, for the escape, or overflow, of
superfluous water from a canal, reservoir, pond, or the like.
Wasting
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Waste
Wasting
(a.)
Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a
wasting disease; a wasting fortune.
Wastor
(n.)
A waster; a thief.
Wastorel
(n.)
See Wastrel.
Wastrel
(n.)
Any waste thing or substance
Wastrel
(n.)
Waste land or common land.
Wastrel
(n.)
A profligate.
Wastrel
(n.)
A neglected child; a street Arab.
Wastrel
(n.)
Anything cast away as bad or useless, as imperfect bricks,
china, etc.