0 using something in a careless way and causing some of it to be wasted:
1 being a bad use of something valuable that you have only a limited amount of:
2 not being careful about the amount of resources used for something:
If a government's decisions are made badly, they will be very wasteful of people's lives.
It is wasteful to throw out a repository of patterns, some of which may have been established over millennia.
Entrance to a 'community' or a 'pays' is also trying to reduce the tendency to spread wasteful and non-productive investments.
We do not want to introduce such wasteful code duplication.
Also, audio rate processing is wasteful on control rate signals that have low bandwidth.
The book is formatted in a technical writing style known as information mapping, which is certainly clear albeit very wasteful of space.
Such analysis could be helpful in decreasing the wasteful use of resources that result from establishment of plantations that are not surviving.
Parasites and parasitoids often shut down host investment in reproduction which is wasteful from the parasite's point of view.
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