WASTE OF ENERGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does waste of energy mean? 

• WASTE OF ENERGY (noun)
  The noun WASTE OF ENERGY has 1 sense:

1. a useless effort

  Familiarity information: WASTE OF ENERGY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WASTE OF ENERGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A useless effort

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

waste of effort; waste of energy

Hypernyms ("waste of energy" is a kind of...):

dissipation; waste; wastefulness (useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly)

 Context examples 

"It is a waste of energy to do anything else," growled Summerlee from behind his pipe.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well, it is very ingenious, said I, laughing; but since, as you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a waste of energy.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Few men were capable of greater muscular effort, and he was undoubtedly one of the finest boxers of his weight that I have ever seen; but he looked upon aimless bodily exertion as a waste of energy, and he seldom bestirred himself save when there was some professional object to be served.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Indeed, it was a waste of energy, for if you were going to be angry with this man you would be angry all the time.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The interests of his deplorable profession are immaterial to us; but, as he observes, we cannot get down in any case, so it is a waste of energy to discuss it.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)