waste fulとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈweɪstfəl/
• 韻: -eɪstfəl

形容詞

wasteful (comparative more wasteful, superlative most wasteful)

1. Inclined to waste or squander money or resources.

   Synonyms: prodigal, profligate; see also Thesaurus:prodigal

   Antonym: unwasteful

   • 2023 March 8, 'Industry Insider', “The Beeching legacy”, in RAIL, number 978, page 68:

     As a narrative, competition of the type seen between the London Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS) and the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER) was seen as wasteful, with duplicate routes reflecting an unnecessary use of resources.

2. (obsolete) Uninhabited, desolate.

   Synonyms: deserted, peopleless; see also Thesaurus:uninhabited

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 17, page 482:

     Shortly vnto the vvaſtefull vvoods ſhe came, / VVhereas ſhe found the Goddeſſe vvith her crevv, […]

派生語

• wastefully
• wastefulness

アナグラム

• awfulest, sweatful