different between wasteful vs inordinate

English

Etymology

From waste +? -ful.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?we?stf?l/
• Rhymes: -e?stf?l

Adjective

wasteful (comparative more wasteful, superlative most wasteful)

1. Inclined to waste or squander money or resources.

   Synonyms: prodigal, profligate

   Antonym: unwasteful

2. (obsolete) Uninhabited, desolate.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.6:

     Shortly unto the wastefull woods she came, / Whereas she found the Goddesse with her crew [...].

Translations

Anagrams

• awfulest

English

Etymology

From Latin inordinatus (“not arranged, disordered, irregular”), from in- + ordinatus, past participle of ordinare (“to arrange, order”); see ordinate, order.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n???d?n?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?n???dn??t/

Adjective

inordinate (comparative more inordinate, superlative most inordinate)

1. Excessive; unreasonable or inappropriate in magnitude; extreme.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:excessive

Translations

Further reading

• inordinate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• inordinate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Latin

Adjective

in?rdin?te

1. vocative masculine singular of in?rdin?tus

References

• inordinate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• inordinate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette