Wasteful
adjective
Using or spending too much of something when less could be used or spent.
Leaving the lights on all day is a wasteful use of energy
Often appears as...
- wasteful spending
- wasteful use
adjective
Using or spending too much of something when less could be used or spent.
Leaving the lights on all day is a wasteful use of energy
Often appears as...
- wasteful spending
- wasteful use
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Describes actions or habits negatively, suggesting they could be avoided or reduced.
Buying a new smartphone every year is wasteful.
Pro Tip 2/3Environmental Context
Often used regarding resources like water, energy, and food, especially in environmental discussions.
Wasteful packaging contributes to environmental pollution.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Impact
Can evoke feelings of guilt or criticism, used to persuade people to change behaviors.
Don't be wasteful with food, many are in need.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Describes actions or habits negatively, suggesting they could be avoided or reduced.
Buying a new smartphone every year is wasteful.
Pro Tip 2/3Environmental Context
Often used regarding resources like water, energy, and food, especially in environmental discussions.
Wasteful packaging contributes to environmental pollution.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Impact
Can evoke feelings of guilt or criticism, used to persuade people to change behaviors.
Don't be wasteful with food, many are in need.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Describes actions or habits negatively, suggesting they could be avoided or reduced.
Buying a new smartphone every year is wasteful.
Pro Tip 2/3Environmental Context
Often used regarding resources like water, energy, and food, especially in environmental discussions.
Wasteful packaging contributes to environmental pollution.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Impact
Can evoke feelings of guilt or criticism, used to persuade people to change behaviors.
Don't be wasteful with food, many are in need.
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Video examples
Sean Sherman: Why aren't...
spirituality, gender roles, sustainability -- all of that stuff is this really important education that we need to learn, you know. So let's just break down some foods real quick. Proteins are easy. We learn about how natives were able to use every single part of a bison. But that's just because we didn't have the privilege to be wasteful.
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Will the ocean ever run...
with restrictions on certain boats and equipment. Harmful practices, such as bottom trawling, can be banned altogether, and we can establish marine reserves closed to all fishing to help ecosystems restore themselves. There's also a role for consumer awareness and boycotts to reduce wasteful practices, like shark finning,
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Rachel Botsman: The case...
towards a rediscovery of collective good. I'm on a mission to make sharing cool. I'm on a mission to make sharing hip. Because I really believe it can disrupt outdated modes of business, help us leapfrog over wasteful forms of hyper-consumption
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How quantum mechanics...
were designed to work and why they're so wasteful. 95% of the light they emit is invisible to our eyes. It's wasted as heat. Earth's infrared radiation would escape to space if there weren't greenhouse gas molecules in our atmophere.
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How Cape Town's...
specific events to climate change but an increase in extreme events life draft is what we are expecting from climate change a lot of the blame made by politicians is to the public saying that their wasteful of resources it's a shame
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Why the universe seems...
embraces the many-worlds interpretation of quantum theory, because the worst that you can say about it is that it's preposterously wasteful. It postulates a vast and rapidly growing number of universes existing in parallel,
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Leather and meat without...
when we look back on today and on how we raise and slaughter billions of animals to make our hamburgers and our handbags, we'll see this as being wasteful and indeed crazy. Did you know that today we maintain
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The hidden network that...
These electricity-to-light chips allow for wasteful electrical cables in data centers to be swapped out for power-efficient fiber. Photonic chips can help break open wireless bandwidth limitations, too.
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A low-cost, reliable...
to the two hours of the eliza test it's portable and more sustainable using just filter paper photo paper exact amounts of reagents and a little bit of water as compared to the plastics and wasteful
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Ferocious Dinosaur...
afford to be wasteful a fact which other dinosaurs take full advantage of rugops an eight meter carnivore anywhere else it might dominate
Video examples
Sean Sherman: Why aren't...
spirituality, gender roles, sustainability -- all of that stuff is this really important education that we need to learn, you know. So let's just break down some foods real quick. Proteins are easy. We learn about how natives were able to use every single part of a bison. But that's just because we didn't have the privilege to be wasteful.
Video examples
Will the ocean ever run...
with restrictions on certain boats and equipment. Harmful practices, such as bottom trawling, can be banned altogether, and we can establish marine reserves closed to all fishing to help ecosystems restore themselves. There's also a role for consumer awareness and boycotts to reduce wasteful practices, like shark finning,
Video examples
Rachel Botsman: The case...
towards a rediscovery of collective good. I'm on a mission to make sharing cool. I'm on a mission to make sharing hip. Because I really believe it can disrupt outdated modes of business, help us leapfrog over wasteful forms of hyper-consumption
Video examples
How quantum mechanics...
were designed to work and why they're so wasteful. 95% of the light they emit is invisible to our eyes. It's wasted as heat. Earth's infrared radiation would escape to space if there weren't greenhouse gas molecules in our atmophere.
Video examples
How Cape Town's...
specific events to climate change but an increase in extreme events life draft is what we are expecting from climate change a lot of the blame made by politicians is to the public saying that their wasteful of resources it's a shame
Video examples
Why the universe seems...
embraces the many-worlds interpretation of quantum theory, because the worst that you can say about it is that it's preposterously wasteful. It postulates a vast and rapidly growing number of universes existing in parallel,
Video examples
Leather and meat without...
when we look back on today and on how we raise and slaughter billions of animals to make our hamburgers and our handbags, we'll see this as being wasteful and indeed crazy. Did you know that today we maintain
Video examples
The hidden network that...
These electricity-to-light chips allow for wasteful electrical cables in data centers to be swapped out for power-efficient fiber. Photonic chips can help break open wireless bandwidth limitations, too.
Video examples
A low-cost, reliable...
to the two hours of the eliza test it's portable and more sustainable using just filter paper photo paper exact amounts of reagents and a little bit of water as compared to the plastics and wasteful
Video examples
Ferocious Dinosaur...
afford to be wasteful a fact which other dinosaurs take full advantage of rugops an eight meter carnivore anywhere else it might dominate
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Quote examples
Marie Kondo
Japanese Businesswoman
To truly cherish the things that are important to you, you must first discard those that have outlived their purpose. And if you no longer need them, then that is neither wasteful nor shameful. Can you truthfully say that you treasure something buried so deeply in a cupboard or drawer that you have forgotten its existence?
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Steve Wynn
American Businessman
If you run a business, if you are responsible for a lot of people, you come to grips with the reality that you have to have discipline. You have to protect the enterprise in order to take care of the employees. So, therefore, you can't be wasteful. You can't squander things, or you jeopardize other people.
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Donella Meadows
American Environmentalist
Before they got vengeful, conservatives had some useful points to make about welfare. Government 'help' is too often guilt-assuaging gesture. It creates layers of wasteful bureaucracy. Too much help of the wrong sort creates a culture of dependency that swamps our ability to provide.
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Nina Fedoroff
American Scientist
In many places in the developed world, we eat or waste probably twice as many food calories as we really need. We're wasteful of food. We ship all over the world. We're now realizing that generating the energy to ship the food around the world is also ruining our climate.
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Patrick deWitt
Canadian Novelist
I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
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Yogi Adityanath
Indian Politician
We must raise resources by curbing wasteful expenditure. That's why I resolved that the hooter culture, where VIPs are provided red-beacon cars at taxpayers' expense, must end.
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David Chang
American Chef
Say a child raises this beautiful beet. It's going to give her a sense of ownership, and that changes everything. You stop taking things for granted; you become less wasteful.
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Konnie Huq
British Celebrity
Growing up as the youngest daughter to immigrant parents, it was instilled in me from an early age to not be wasteful and to be respectful of money and possessions.
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Nicholas Stern
English Economist
Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.
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Tom Graves
American Politician
If there is wasteful spending, I will not support it.
Quote examples
Marie Kondo
Japanese Businesswoman
To truly cherish the things that are important to you, you must first discard those that have outlived their purpose. And if you no longer need them, then that is neither wasteful nor shameful. Can you truthfully say that you treasure something buried so deeply in a cupboard or drawer that you have forgotten its existence?
Quote examples
Steve Wynn
American Businessman
If you run a business, if you are responsible for a lot of people, you come to grips with the reality that you have to have discipline. You have to protect the enterprise in order to take care of the employees. So, therefore, you can't be wasteful. You can't squander things, or you jeopardize other people.
Quote examples
Donella Meadows
American Environmentalist
Before they got vengeful, conservatives had some useful points to make about welfare. Government 'help' is too often guilt-assuaging gesture. It creates layers of wasteful bureaucracy. Too much help of the wrong sort creates a culture of dependency that swamps our ability to provide.
Quote examples
Nina Fedoroff
American Scientist
In many places in the developed world, we eat or waste probably twice as many food calories as we really need. We're wasteful of food. We ship all over the world. We're now realizing that generating the energy to ship the food around the world is also ruining our climate.
Quote examples
Patrick deWitt
Canadian Novelist
I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
Quote examples
Yogi Adityanath
Indian Politician
We must raise resources by curbing wasteful expenditure. That's why I resolved that the hooter culture, where VIPs are provided red-beacon cars at taxpayers' expense, must end.
Quote examples
David Chang
American Chef
Say a child raises this beautiful beet. It's going to give her a sense of ownership, and that changes everything. You stop taking things for granted; you become less wasteful.
Quote examples
Konnie Huq
British Celebrity
Growing up as the youngest daughter to immigrant parents, it was instilled in me from an early age to not be wasteful and to be respectful of money and possessions.
Quote examples
Nicholas Stern
English Economist
Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.
Quote examples
Tom Graves
American Politician
If there is wasteful spending, I will not support it.
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