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Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as; wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.

To destroy by wasteful extravagance or lavish use; to squander. The vast wealth . . . was in three years dissipated. Bp. Burnet.

Wasteful of health, money, etc., in the pursuit of pleasure; dissolute; intemperate. A life irregular and dissipated. Johnson.

ight. To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, . . . Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. Shak. That kills me with excess of grief, this with excess of joy. Walsh.

Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful; as, an extravagant man. "Extravagant expense." Bancroft.

Economical in the use or appropriation of resources; not wasteful or lavish; wise in the expenditure or application of force, materials, time, etc.; characterized by frugality; sparing; economical; saving; as, a frugal housekeeper; frugal of time. I oft admire How Nature, wise and frugal, could commit Such disproportio…

Not frugal; wasteful; as, an infrugal expense of time. J. Goodman.

Wasteful; slothful.

pending money or other things without necessity; recklessly or viciously profuse; lavish; wasteful; not frugal or economical; as, a prodigal man; the prodigal son; prodigal giving; prodigal expenses. In fighting fields [patriots] were prodigal of blood. Dryden.

In a prodigal manner; with profusion of expense; extravagantly; wasteful; profusely; lavishly; as, an estate prodigally dissipated. Nature not bounteous now, but lavish grows; Our paths with flowers she prodigally strows. Dryden.

ss. -- To run through. (a) To go through hastily; as to run through a book. (b) To spend wastefully; as, to run through an estate. -- To run to seed, to expend or exhaust vitality in producing seed, as a plant; figuratively and colloquially, to cease growing; to lose vital force, as the body or mind. -- To run up, t…

Avoiding unnecessary expense or waste; frugal; not lavish or wasteful; economical; as, a saving cook.

To be careless, negligent, or aswkward, esp. with regard to dress and neatness; to be wasteful. Ray.

To consume carelessly or wastefully; to waste; -- with away. [R.] Chesterfield.

Prodigal; extravagant; wasteful.

Wasteful; rapacious. [Poetic]

To spend lavishly or profusely; to spend prodigally or wastefully; to use without economy or judgment; to dissipate; as, to squander an estate. The crime of squandering health is equal to the folly. Rambler.

In a manner, or with the care, of a steward. [R.] To be stewardly dispensed, not wastefully spent. Tooker.

y as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean. Shak.