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Excessive vs Wastefulness - What's the difference?

excessive | wastefulness |

As a adjective excessive

is exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate.

As a noun wastefulness is

imprudent or excessive expenditure or the waste of resources.

excessive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate.
    • "I personally consider putting a wide vibrato on a single 16th triplet note at 160 beats per minute rather excessive , nay even stupid."

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * insufficient * deficient

    Derived terms

    * excessive number

    Related terms

    * exceed * excess

    wastefulness

    English

    Noun

    (wastefulness) (-)
  • imprudent or excessive expenditure or the waste of resources
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    • , year=2011 , date=October 29 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Arsenal paid the price for that wastefulness when Chelsea took the lead after 14 minutes. Mata was afforded to much space by Santos and when the ponderous Per Mertesacker missed his cross Lampard timed his arrival perfectly to head past Wojciech Szczesny.}}