Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wasterful

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
waster-ful
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

wasteful

Obsolete

Etymology

From waster (“to be a waster, waste”) + -ful.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

more wasterful (comparative) most wasterful (superlative)

Questions

What does wasterful mean?
wasteful
Where does wasterful come from?
From waster (“to be a waster, waste”) + -ful.

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