n00742645
| type | n |
| lex_filenum | 04 |
| def | useless or profitless activity |
| def | using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly |
| examples | if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste mindless dissipation of natural resources |
| Outgoing links | |
| Hypernym | activity |
| Derivationally related form | dissipation → dissipate |
| Derivationally related form | wastefulness → wasteful |
| Derivationally related form | wastefulness → wasteful |
| Derivationally related form | waste → waste; waste → waste |
| Derivationally related form | waste → waste |
| Hyponym | boondoggle; waste of effort, waste of energy; waste of material; waste of money; waste of time; extravagance, prodigality, lavishness, highlife, high life; squandering |
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| Derivationally related form | wasteful → wastefulness |
| Derivationally related form | wasteful → wastefulness |
| Hypernym | boondoggle; waste of effort, waste of energy; waste of material; waste of money; waste of time; extravagance, prodigality, lavishness, highlife, high life; squandering |
| Hyponym | activity |
| Derivationally related form | waste → waste |
| Derivationally related form | waste → waste; waste → waste |
| Derivationally related form | dissipate → dissipation |
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