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Luxurious vs Wasteful - What's the difference?

luxurious | wasteful |

As adjectives the difference between luxurious and wasteful

is that luxurious is enjoying pleasures of luxury while wasteful is inclined to waste or squander money or resources.

luxurious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Enjoying pleasures of luxury.
  • Being very fine and comfortable.
  • Antonyms

    * impoverished

    Synonyms

    * epicurean

    See also

    * sumptuous

    wasteful

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Inclined to waste or squander money or resources.
  • (obsolete) Uninhabited, desolate.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.6:
  • Shortly unto the wastefull woods she came, / Whereas she found the Goddesse with her crew [...].

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