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Wasteful vs Exuberant - What's the difference?

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Wasteful is a related term of exuberant.


As adjectives the difference between wasteful and exuberant

is that wasteful is inclined to waste or squander money or resources while exuberant is exuberant.

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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    exuberant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (of people) Very high-spirited; extremely energetic and enthusiastic.
  • * 1882 , , "The Lady or the Tiger?":
  • He was a man of exuberant fancy, and, withal of an authority so irresistible that, at his will, he turned his varied fancies into facts.
  • * 1961 , , Catch-22 :
  • She was a tall, earthy, exuberant girl with long hair and a pretty face.
  • (of things that grow) Abundant, luxuriant, profuse, superabundant.
  • * 1972 , Ken Lemmon, "Restoration Work at Studley Royal," Garden History , vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 22:
  • The County Architect's Department is starting to pleach trees to open up these vistas, now almost hidden by the exuberant growth.

    References

    * Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989. * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary , 1987-1996. ----