Exact Match:
- uneconomical
- inefficient in use of time and effort and materials; "a clumsy and wasteful process"; "wasteful duplication of effort"; "uneconomical ebb and flow of power"
- wasteful of resources
Synonyms:
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Related Words:
- expensive
collapse - high in price or charging high prices; "expensive clothes"; "an expensive shop" related words >
- improvident
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- not provident; not providing for the future related words >
- brash,
- brazen,
- brazenfaced,
- careless,
- extravagant,
- feckless,
- grasshopper,
- happy-go-lucky,
- headlong,
- heedless,
- hubristic,
- impetuous,
- imprudent,
- impudent,
- impulsive,
- incautious,
- indiscreet,
- injudicious,
- insolent,
- lavish,
- negligent,
- overbold,
- overcareless,
- overconfident,
- oversure,
- overweening,
- prodigal,
- profligate,
- profuse,
- rash,
- reckless,
- shiftless,
- short-sighted,
- spendthrift,
- temerarious,
- thoughtless,
- thriftless,
- unchary,
- uneconomical,
- unmindful,
- unproviding,
- unthinking,
- unthoughtful,
- unthrifty,
- unwary,
- wasteful
- shiftless
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- lacking or characterized by lack of ambition or initiative; lazy; "a shiftless student"; "studied in a shiftless way" related words >
- aimless,
- bone-lazy,
- cadging,
- dilatory,
- do-nothing,
- doless,
- dronish,
- drony,
- easy,
- ergophobic,
- faineant,
- feckless,
- good-for-nothing,
- grasshopper,
- happy-go-lucky,
- heedless,
- idle,
- improvident,
- indolent,
- ineffective,
- irresponsible,
- lackadaisical,
- laggard,
- lax,
- lazy,
- negligent,
- nonaggressive,
- otiose,
- parasitic,
- pococurante,
- procrastinative,
- remiss,
- scrounging,
- slack,
- slothful,
- slow,
- sponging,
- thoughtless,
- thriftless,
- unambitious,
- uncaring,
- uneconomical,
- unenterprising,
- uninspired,
- unmotivated,
- unproviding,
- unthrifty,
- work-shy
- grasshopper
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- terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping
- a cocktail made of creme de menthe and cream (sometimes with creme de cacao) related words >
- broad jumper,
- bucking bronco,
- buckjumper,
- cicada,
- cicala,
- cricket,
- dog-day cicada,
- feckless,
- flea,
- frog,
- gazelle,
- goat,
- happy-go-lucky,
- heedless,
- high jumper,
- hopper,
- hoppergrass,
- hurdle racer,
- hurdler,
- improvident,
- jackrabbit,
- jumper,
- jumping bean,
- jumping jack,
- kangaroo,
- leaper,
- locust,
- negligent,
- pole vaulter,
- salmon,
- shiftless,
- stag,
- sunfisher,
- thoughtless,
- thriftless,
- timber topper,
- uneconomical,
- unproviding,
- unthrifty,
- vaulter
- feckless
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- generally incompetent and ineffectual; "feckless attempts to repair the plumbing"; "inept handling of the account"
- not fit to assume responsibility related words >
- aimless,
- barren,
- bootless,
- carefree,
- careless,
- counterproductive,
- easygoing,
- effete,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- fruitless,
- fustian,
- futile,
- good-for-nothing,
- grasshopper,
- happy-go-lucky,
- heedless,
- impotent,
- improvident,
- inadequate,
- inadvertent,
- inane,
- incautious,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- inoperative,
- invalid,
- irresponsible,
- lackadaisical,
- meaningless,
- negligent,
- no go,
- nonchalant,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- of no force,
- of no use,
- pointless,
- purposeless,
- reckless,
- remiss,
- shiftless,
- sterile,
- superfluous,
- thoughtless,
- thriftless,
- unavailing,
- uncaring,
- undependable,
- uneconomical,
- unheeding,
- unproviding,
- unpurposed,
- unreflective,
- unreliable,
- unthinking,
- unthrifty,
- untrustworthy,
- useless,
- vain,
- wild,
- worthless,
- wrecking
- heedless
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- characterized by careless unconcern; "the heedless generosity and the spasmodic extravagance of persons used to large fortunes"- Edith Wharton; "reckless squandering of public funds"
- marked by or paying little heed or attention; "We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics"--Franklin D. Roosevelt; "heedless of danger"; "heedless of the child's crying" related words >
- Lethean,
- absentminded,
- airy,
- aloof,
- amnestic,
- apathetic,
- arbitrary,
- ataractic,
- blase,
- blind,
- blocked,
- bored,
- capricious,
- careless,
- casual,
- converted,
- cursory,
- deaf,
- degage,
- detached,
- devil-may-care,
- disinterested,
- dispassionate,
- disregardant,
- disregardful,
- distant,
- distracted,
- distrait,
- easygoing,
- feckless,
- flippant,
- forgetful,
- forgetting,
- free and easy,
- grasshopper,
- happy-go-lucky,
- impassive,
- improvident,
- inadvertent,
- inattentive,
- inclined to forget,
- inconsiderate,
- incurious,
- indifferent,
- inexcitable,
- inobservant,
- insouciant,
- lackadaisical,
- lazy,
- listless,
- mindless,
- neglectful,
- negligent,
- nonchalant,
- oblivious,
- offhand,
- perfunctory,
- phlegmatic,
- pococurante,
- reasonless,
- reckless,
- regardless,
- repressed,
- respectless,
- shiftless,
- stolid,
- suppressed,
- tactless,
- thoughtless,
- thriftless,
- turned-off,
- unaccommodating,
- unanxious,
- uncalculating,
- uncaring,
- uncomplaisant,
- unconcerned,
- uncooperative,
- undiplomatic,
- undiscriminating,
- uneconomical,
- unguarded,
- unheedful,
- unheeding,
- unhelpful,
- uninquiring,
- uninterested,
- uninvolved,
- unmarking,
- unmindful,
- unnoticing,
- unnoting,
- unobliging,
- unobservant,
- unobserving,
- unprepared,
- unproviding,
- unready,
- unreasoning,
- unreflecting,
- unreflective,
- unremarking,
- unsolicitous,
- untactful,
- unthinking,
- unthoughtful,
- unthrifty,
- withdrawn,
- wrecking
- negligent
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- marked by insufficient care or attention; "a negligent housekeeper"; "negligent about personal cleanliness"
- characterized by neglect and undue lack of concern; "negligent parents"; "negligent of detail"; "negligent in his correspondence" related words >
- apathetic,
- approximate,
- approximative,
- ataractic,
- beat-up,
- bedraggled,
- behindhand,
- blase,
- blowzy,
- botched,
- bungled,
- butchered,
- careless,
- casual,
- chintzy,
- culpably negligent,
- delinquent,
- derelict,
- devil-may-care,
- dilapidated,
- disinterested,
- dispassionate,
- disregardant,
- disregardful,
- distracted,
- distrait,
- drabbletailed,
- draggled,
- draggletailed,
- easy,
- easygoing,
- feckless,
- frowzy,
- frumpish,
- frumpy,
- fumbled,
- grasshopper,
- grubby,
- happy-go-lucky,
- heedless,
- ill-advised,
- ill-considered,
- ill-contrived,
- ill-devised,
- ill-done,
- ill-executed,
- ill-managed,
- impolitic,
- impotent,
- imprecise,
- improvident,
- in rags,
- inaccurate,
- inadvertent,
- inattentive,
- inconsiderate,
- inconstant,
- incorrect,
- incurious,
- indifferent,
- inexact,
- inexcitable,
- informal,
- inobservant,
- insouciant,
- lackadaisical,
- laissez-faire,
- lax,
- lenient,
- listless,
- loose,
- lumpen,
- messy,
- mindless,
- misconducted,
- misdirected,
- misguided,
- mismanaged,
- muffed,
- murdered,
- mussy,
- neglectful,
- neglecting,
- nonadherent,
- nonchalant,
- noncompliant,
- nonconforming,
- noninterfering,
- nonobservant,
- nonrestrictive,
- off-guard,
- out of line,
- out of plumb,
- out of square,
- out of true,
- overindulgent,
- overly permissive,
- overpermissive,
- perfunctory,
- permissive,
- pococurante,
- poky,
- procrastinating,
- ragged,
- raggedy,
- reckless,
- regardless,
- relaxed,
- remiss,
- ruinous,
- scamping,
- scraggly,
- seedy,
- shabby,
- shiftless,
- shoddy,
- skimping,
- slack,
- slatternly,
- slighting,
- slipshod,
- sloppy,
- slovenly,
- slurring,
- sluttish,
- soft,
- sordid,
- spoiled,
- squalid,
- tacky,
- tattered,
- thoughtless,
- thriftless,
- turned-off,
- unanxious,
- uncircumspect,
- uncompliant,
- unconcerned,
- unconforming,
- undiscriminating,
- uneconomical,
- unfactual,
- unfaithful,
- unguarded,
- unheedful,
- unheeding,
- uninterested,
- unkempt,
- unloyal,
- unmarking,
- unmindful,
- unneat,
- unnoticing,
- unnoting,
- unobservant,
- unobserving,
- unprecise,
- unproviding,
- unremarking,
- unrestrained,
- unrigorous,
- unsightly,
- unsolicitous,
- unthinking,
- unthrifty,
- untidy,
- untrue,
- unwary,
- unwatchful,
- weak
- thoughtless
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- without care or thought for others; "the thoughtless saying of a great princess on being informed that the people had no bread; `Let them eat cake'"
- showing lack of careful thought; "the debate turned into thoughtless bickering" related words >
- absent-minded,
- airy,
- apish,
- arbitrary,
- artless,
- asinine,
- batty,
- befooled,
- beguiled,
- besotted,
- blank,
- blankminded,
- brainless,
- brash,
- buffoonish,
- calm,
- capricious,
- careless,
- casual,
- cockeyed,
- crazy,
- credulous,
- cursory,
- daffy,
- daft,
- dazed,
- degage,
- discourteous,
- disregardant,
- disregardful,
- distracted,
- distrait,
- dizzy,
- doting,
- dumb,
- easygoing,
- empty,
- empty-headed,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- featherbrained,
- featherheaded,
- feckless,
- flaky,
- flippant,
- fluttery,
- fond,
- fool,
- foolheaded,
- foolish,
- forgetful,
- free and easy,
- frivolous,
- fuddled,
- futile,
- gaga,
- giddy,
- giddy-brained,
- giddy-headed,
- giddy-pated,
- giddy-witted,
- goofy,
- grasshopper,
- gulled,
- half-assed,
- happy-go-lucky,
- harebrain,
- harebrained,
- hasty,
- heedless,
- hotheaded,
- idiotic,
- ill-advised,
- ill-considered,
- ill-contrived,
- ill-devised,
- ill-gauged,
- ill-judged,
- imbecile,
- impolite,
- impolitic,
- improvident,
- imprudent,
- inadept,
- inadvertent,
- inadvisable,
- inane,
- inapt,
- inattentive,
- incautious,
- incogitant,
- inconsiderate,
- incurious,
- indifferent,
- indiscreet,
- inefficient,
- inept,
- inexpedient,
- inexpert,
- infatuated,
- injudicious,
- inobservant,
- insane,
- insensate,
- insensitive,
- insouciant,
- irrational,
- kooky,
- lazy,
- loony,
- mad,
- madcap,
- maudlin,
- mediocre,
- mindless,
- misadvised,
- misguided,
- moronic,
- myopic,
- neglectful,
- negligent,
- nirvanic,
- nutty,
- oblivious,
- offhand,
- passive,
- pedestrian,
- perfunctory,
- poor,
- quietistic,
- rash,
- rattlebrained,
- rattleheaded,
- rattlepated,
- reasonless,
- reckless,
- regardless,
- relaxed,
- remiss,
- respectless,
- rude,
- sappy,
- scatterbrained,
- scramblebrained,
- screwy,
- selfish,
- senseless,
- sentimental,
- sharp,
- shatterbrained,
- shiftless,
- shortsighted,
- silly,
- skill-less,
- stupid,
- tactless,
- thoughtfree,
- thriftless,
- tranquil,
- unaccommodating,
- unadvised,
- unapt,
- uncalculating,
- uncaring,
- unceremonious,
- uncomplaisant,
- unconsidered,
- uncooperative,
- undeft,
- undexterous,
- undextrous,
- undiplomatic,
- undiscerning,
- uneconomical,
- unfacile,
- unforeseeing,
- ungracious,
- unguarded,
- unheedful,
- unheeding,
- unhelpful,
- unideaed,
- unintellectual,
- unintelligent,
- unmarking,
- unmindful,
- unnoticing,
- unnoting,
- unobliging,
- unobservant,
- unobserving,
- unoccupied,
- unprepared,
- unproficient,
- unproviding,
- unready,
- unreasonable,
- unreasoning,
- unreflecting,
- unreflective,
- unremarking,
- unseeing,
- unsensible,
- unskillful,
- unsolicitous,
- unsound,
- untactful,
- unthinking,
- unthoughtful,
- unthrifty,
- unwise,
- vacant,
- vacuous,
- wacky,
- wet,
- witless,
- wrecking
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