Wasteful

1. a. Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled.
2. a. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.
3. 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.

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Wastage

1. n. Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.

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Waste

1. a. Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.
2. a. Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
3. a. Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.
4. a. To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury.
5. a. To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.
6. v. i. To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less.
7. v. i. To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; — said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc.
8. v. The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc.
9. v. That which is wasted or desolate; a devastated, uncultivated, or wild country; a deserted region; an unoccupied or unemployed space; a dreary void; a desert; a wilderness.
10. v. That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse. Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc.
11. 1a. 1 Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.

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Wasted

1. imp. & p. p. of Waste

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Wasting

1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Waste

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Wastebasket

1. n. A basket used in offices, libraries, etc., as a receptacle for waste paper.

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Wasp

1. n. Any one of numerous species of stinging hymenopterous insects, esp. any of the numerous species of the genus Vespa, which includes the true, or social, wasps, some of which are called yellow jackets.

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Waspish

1. a. Quick to resent a trifling affront; characterized by snappishness; irritable; irascible; petulant; snappish.
2. a. Resembling a wasp in form; having a slender waist, like a wasp.

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Wassail

1. v. i. To hold a wassail; to carouse.
2. n. An ancient expression of good wishes on a festive occasion, especially in drinking to some one.
3. n. An occasion on which such good wishes are expressed in drinking; a drinking bout; a carouse.
4. n. The liquor used for a wassail; esp., a beverage formerly much used in England at Christmas and other festivals, made of ale (or wine) flavored with spices, sugar, toast, roasted apples, etc.; — called also lamb’s wool.
5. n. A festive or drinking song or glee.
6. a. Of or pertaining to wassail, or to a wassail; convivial; as, a wassail bowl.

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Wassailer

1. n. One who drinks wassail; one who engages in festivity, especially in drinking; a reveler.

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