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Synonyms for wasteful

The synonym for wasteful recorded in this bank is uneconomical, in the sense "inefficient in use of time and effort and materials". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 5, Summit · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for wasteful

uneconomicaladjective, in the sense "inefficient in use of time and effort and materials"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day wasteful is audited in a second meaning.

The senseadjectiveTier 5, SummitActions

inefficient in use of time and effort and materials

A clumsy and wasteful process.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

uneconomical

Same sentence, swapped: A clumsy and uneconomical process.

Close but different

The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.

lavish
withering
fateful

Where wasteful turns up in the game

wasteful is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play wasteful

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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