uneconomic

1. 1.

   wasteful of resources

   Synonymsuneconomical

   Similarwasteful

Questions about uneconomic

What does uneconomic mean?

uneconomic means "wasteful of resources".

How many syllables are in uneconomic?

uneconomic has 5 syllables: u-nec-o-no-mic. The stress falls on "no". In IPA it is /əˌnɛkəˈnɑmɪk/.

What is another word for uneconomic?

Close synonyms include uneconomical. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is uneconomic a common word?

uneconomic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.