喜樂美語
  1. 1

    Using more of something — money, time, food, energy — than you really need, in a careless way. You can call a person wasteful, or call an action or a system wasteful, like a wasteful habit of leaving lights on all night.

    浪費的

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

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組成waste + -ful (full of)

同家族的字

  • wastethe base word — to use something carelessly and lose it for no good reason

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

wastefuladj/ˈweɪstfəl/

  • 1

    Inclined to waste or squander money or resources.

    • As a narrative, competition of the type seen between the London Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS) and the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER) was seen as wasteful, with duplicate routes reflecting an unnecessary use of resources.
  • 2

    obsoleteUninhabited, desolate.

    • Shortly vnto the vvaſtefull vvoods ſhe came, / VVhereas ſhe found the Goddeſſe vvith her crevv, […]

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。