waste of energy

1. 1.

   a useless effort

   Synonymswaste of effort

   Broaderwaste

Questions about waste of energy

What does waste of energy mean?

waste of energy means "a useless effort".

What is another word for waste of energy?

Close synonyms include waste of effort. 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 waste of energy a common word?

waste of energy 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.