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Wasteful vs Squandering - What's the difference?

wasteful | squandering |

As an adjective wasteful

is inclined to waste or squander money or resources.

As a verb squandering is

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As a noun squandering is

the act by which something is squandered; wastage.

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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    squandering

    English

    Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is squandered; wastage.