imprudent or excessive expenditure or the waste of resources

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

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

simple past tense and past participle of waste

plural of waste

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of waste

plural of wasteness

(obsolete) The state of being laid waste; desolation. / (now rare) The state of being uncultivated; wild, barren. / (obsolete) A wilderness.

plural of wastefulness

(obsolete) A waste or wilderness.