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wastefulness

/weyst-fuhl/US // ˈweɪst fəl //UK // (ˈweɪstfʊl) //

浪费,浪费现象,浪费行为,浪费问题

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : given to or characterized by useless consumption or expenditure: wasteful methods; a wasteful way of life.
    • : grossly extravagant; prodigal: a wasteful party.
    • : devastating or destructive: wasteful war.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounextravagance
Synonyms
absurdity荒诞性,荒谬性,荒唐,荒谬的事amenity适意性,安乐设施,安乐窝,适意dissipation耗散,耗损,耗费,消散exaggeration夸大其词,夸大其辞,夸张,夸大之词excess过量,过度,过量的,过剩exorbitance高昂的价格,过高的价格,昂贵的费用,昂贵的价格expenditure支出,支出费用,花费,支出情况extravagancy挥霍无度,奢侈,奢侈浪费,奢华folly愚蠢,愚蠢的行为,愚蠢的,愚弄frill褶皱,褶边,流苏,边缘化immoderation无理取闹,放肆,放纵,放任自流improvidence贪婪,贪得无厌,愚蠢的行为,贪婪无度lavishness奢华,奢华主义,奢侈,豪华luxury奢华,奢侈品,豪华,奢侈outrageousness无耻之徒,愤慨,无耻之极,无耻overindulgence过度放纵,放纵,纵欲过度,放纵自己prodigality挥霍无度,挥霍浪费,挥霍,挥霍成性profligacy挥霍无度,挥霍浪费,挥霍,浪费profuseness熟练程度,繁华,熟练度,繁忙profusion繁茂,繁华,丰富多样,丰富的内容recklessness鲁莽行事,鲁莽行为,鲁莽,罔顾后果squandering挥霍无度,挥霍浪费,挥霍,挥霍的superfluity赘肉,赘生物,赘疣,多余的unrestraint无拘无束,不受约束,不受限制,无拘束waste浪费,废物,废弃物,废弃wildness野性,狂野性,狂野,野生icing on the cake锦上添花,锦上添花的事,锦上添花的事情,锦上添花的东西overdoing矫枉过正,过度,矫枉过直,过度追求overspending超支,超前消费,超额支出,超额消费preposterousness荒谬的事情,荒诞不经,荒唐,荒谬squander挥霍,挥霍浪费,挥霍无度,挥霍掉unreasonableness不合理性,不合情理,不合理,不合理之处unthrift不节俭,不俭朴,不俭省,不节俭的人

Examples

  • Yet critics worry the drive toward ever-bigger AI is wasteful, expensive, and consolidates research in the hands of a few companies with cash to fund large-scale models.

  • In theory, and at scale, the process would be more efficient, less wasteful, and save a few forests too.

  • A poor setup can ruin a business just as quickly as a wasteful campaign.

  • Some 64 billion parcels were sent last year domestically but current delivery networks are piecemeal, inefficient and wasteful.

  • During my administration, I repeatedly tried to fix this wasteful, ineffective system.

  • Speaking of the TSA leads directly into a final way of minimizing the excesses and wastefulness of a national surveillance state.

  • Yet the mesmerizing fact in US fiscal policy is not the cost of defense, but the wastefulness of US health spending.

  • Among the lower classes, great wastefulness in the family economies is attributed to the ignorance of the women.

  • With calm wastefulness he peeled away the biggest part of the white of the egg with the shell—because it came away so.

  • But the new style must conform to the requirement of reputable wastefulness and futility.

  • Collateral evidence as to this is the extraordinary wastefulness, of operation which prevailed.

  • Reproaching him further for his wastefulness, Mrs. Shorne promised him the money should be got, by hook or by crook, next day.