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What is the adjective for wasteable?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb waste which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

waste
  1. (now rare) Uncultivated, uninhabited.
  2. Barren; desert.
  3. Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.
  4. Superfluous; needless.
  5. Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
  6. Unfortunate; disappointing. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “Research is ongoing as to how best to recycle waste material.”
      “Two factories were closed down and demolished, leaving a waste area that has effectively become a dump.”
      “His description and his opinion of the country are sufficiently dismal, but he passed through a waste and empty land, before colonizing on the coasts had reached its present state.”
wasted
  1. Not profitably used.
  2. Ravaged or deteriorated.
  3. Emaciated and haggard.
  4. (slang) very drunk or stoned.
  5. (medicine) low weight-for-height (for a person).
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “The second is the silent tears in the eyes of the parents as they watch their limp and wasted children.”
      “She'd been looking wasted from all the drugs, but now she'd put on weight, plus she was wearing neat clothes, jeans, and a cute blouse, and her hair was shiny.”
      “Being completely wasted after a workout isn't necessarily a good indicator of the quality of the workout.”
wastey
  1. (animal) too fat, as opposed to meaty
  2. (fruit) soft as a result of getting overripe
  3. (slang) getting drunk close to being wasted
  4. Examples:
    1. “Protein brought out more of the muscling and red meat before the cattle got too wastey with too much fat.”
wasteful
  1. Inclined to waste or squander money or resources.
  2. (obsolete) Uninhabited, desolate.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Similar examples of irrational and wasteful uses of water can be found elsewhere.”
      “As energy prices soar, it will seem ludicrously wasteful to cart goods halfway round the world.”
      “When the cost of living increases, everybody will cut wasteful expenditure.”
wasting
wastry
wastable
  1. Alternative form of wasteable
wasteable
  1. Capable of being wasted.
wastfull
  1. (obsolete) wasteful
wasteless
  1. Without waste.
  2. Examples:
    1. “In order to demonstrate an automated wasteless molding process, a valve-gated cold runner was selected.”
      “Animation, a by-necessity wasteless industry, typically tells its story as spartanly as possible due to budgetary constraints.”
      “The use of the new wasteless technology of production of soap chips gives opportunity to accomplish several topical tasks in traditional methods of production.”
wasterful
  1. (obsolete) wasteful
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