English > wastefulness: 2 senses > noun 2, act| Meaning | useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly. |
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| Synonyms | waste, dissipation |
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| Narrower | boondoggle | Work of little or no value done merely to look busy |
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| extravagance, prodigality, lavishness, highlife, high life | excessive spending / spending |
| squandering | spending resources lavishly and wastefully |
| waste of effort, waste of energy | A useless effort |
| waste of material | A useless consumption of material |
| waste of money | money spent for inadequate return |
| waste of time | The devotion of time to a useless activity |
| Broader | activity | Any specific behavior |
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| Spanish | derroche, despilfarro, dilapidación, disipación |
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| Catalan | balafiament, dissipació, malbaratament |
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| Adjectives | wasteful | laying waste |
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| wasteful | inefficient in use of time and effort and materials |
