Antonyms for wasteful

Grammar : Adj

Spell : weyst-fuh l

Phonetic Transcription : ˈweɪst fəl

Definition of wasteful

Origin : 14c., from waste (n.) + -ful. Related: Wastefully; wastefulness.

adj not economical

Example sentences :

Wasteful, too, this cooking of food for two and only one to eat it.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

In fact, her mind had never been overwhelmed by a wasteful torrent of learning.
Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 5 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth

The openings of the war were gloomy and wasteful, without glory.
Extract from : « Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Complete » by Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre

And of all means to regeneration Remorse is surely the most wasteful.
Extract from : « Howards End » by E. M. Forster

From our standpoint they may have been wasteful methods, but they did get results.
Extract from : « Higher Education and Business Standards » by Willard Eugene Hotchkiss

He finished his plate only because he had been taught that to leave food over was wasteful.
Extract from : « Runaway » by William Morrison

It is wasteful of ones time to frame them, and fatal to ones work to adopt them.
Extract from : « An Ethnologist's View of History » by Daniel G. Brinton

This period brought an increase of wealth, but it was wasteful of human life.
Extract from : « The Task of Social Hygiene » by Havelock Ellis

He would like to have no wasteful margins and no extreme in the size of type.
Extract from : « The Booklover and His Books » by Harry Lyman Koopman

Careless, slovenly and wasteful as I knew him to be, he was not mean.
Extract from : « A Daughter of the Middle Border » by Hamlin Garland

Synonyms for wasteful

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