Inclined to waste or squander money or resources. / (obsolete) Uninhabited, desolate.

imprudent or excessive expenditure or the waste of resources

plural of wastefulness

Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish. / Excrement or urine. / A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.

(MTE, slang, derogatory) Useless and contemptible.

(now rare) Uncultivated, uninhabited. / Barren; desert. / Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess. / Superfluous; needless. / Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

(transitive) To devastate; to destroy. / (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly. / (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.

(archaic) second-person singular simple past form of be; wert.

Obsolete form of waist.

Not profitably used. / Ravaged or deteriorated. / Emaciated and haggard. / (slang) Very drunk or stoned. / (medicine) Low weight-for-height (for a person).