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Wasteful vs Excessive - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between wasteful and excessive

is that wasteful is inclined to waste or squander money or resources while excessive is exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate.

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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    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

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    Antonyms

    * insufficient * deficient

    Derived terms

    * excessive number

    Related terms

    * exceed * excess