Wasteful vs Dissipated - What's the difference?
wasteful | dissipated | Related terms |
Inclined to waste or squander money or resources.
(obsolete) Uninhabited, desolate.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.6:
(dissipate)
to have squandered and scattered valuable possessions while devoted to pursuit of self-indulgent pleasures
* James dissipated his savings with all of his addictions.
Wasteful of health or possessions in the pursuit of pleasure
Wasteful is a related term of dissipated.
As adjectives the difference between wasteful and dissipated
is that wasteful is inclined to waste or squander money or resources while dissipated is to have squandered and scattered valuable possessions while devoted to pursuit of self-indulgent pleasures.As a verb dissipated is
(dissipate).wasteful
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Shortly unto the wastefull woods she came, / Whereas she found the Goddesse with her crew [...].
