Synonyms of the word

wasteful

• adj. Inclined to waste or squander money or resources.
• adj. (obsolete) Uninhabited, desolate.

destructive

• adj. Causing destruction; damaging.
• adj. Causing breakdown or disassembly.
• adj. (computing) Lossy; causing irreversible change.

extravagant

• adj. Exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign.
• adj. Extreme; wild; excessive; unrestrained.
• adj. Exorbitant.
• adj. Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful.

improvident

• adj. failing to provide for the future; reckless.
• adj. incautious; prone to rashness.

inefficient

• adj. Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious.
• adj. Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or unproductive; effecting little or…
• n. A person who cannot or does not work efficiently.

pound-foolish

• adj. Being unwise in dealing with large amounts of money.

prodigal

• adj. wastefully extravagant.
• adj. (often followed by of or with) someone yielding profusely, lavish.
• adj. profuse, lavishly abundant.
• adj. returning after abandoning a person, group, or ideal, especially for selfish reasons; being a prodigal…
• n. A prodigal person, a spendthrift.

profligate

• adj. Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.
• adj. Immoral; abandoned to vice.
• adj. (obsolete) Overthrown, ruined.
• n. An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
• n. An overly wasteful or extravagant individual.
• v. (obsolete) To drive away; to overcome.

spendthrift

• adj. Wasteful, improvident or profligate.
• adj. Lavish or extravagant.
• n. Someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully.

uneconomic

• adj. financially inefficient, costly, wasteful, or loss making.

uneconomical

• adj. Not economical.