'Wasted' definitions:
Definition of 'wasted'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being; "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless"; "senseless violence" [syn: otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted]
adjective
Not used to good advantage; "squandered money cannot be replaced"; "a wasted effort" [syn: squandered, wasted]
adjective
(of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use; "partial paralysis resulted in an atrophied left arm" [syn: atrophied, wasted, diminished] [ant: enlarged, hypertrophied]
adjective
Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration" [syn: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted]
Definition of 'Wasted'
From: GCIDE
- Waste \Waste\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Wasting.] [OE. wasten, OF. waster, guaster, gaster, F. g[^a]ter to spoil, L. vastare to devastate, to lay waste, fr. vastus waste, desert, uncultivated, ravaged, vast, but influenced by a kindred German word; cf. OHG. wuosten, G. w["u]sten, AS. w[=e]stan. See Waste, a.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy. [1913 Webster]
- Thou barren ground, whom winter's wrath hath wasted, Art made a mirror to behold my plight. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- The Tiber Insults our walls, and wastes our fruitful grounds. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out. [1913 Webster]
- Until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness. --Num. xiv. 33. [1913 Webster]
- O, were I able To waste it all myself, and leave ye none! --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Here condemned To waste eternal days in woe and pain. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Wasted by such a course of life, the infirmities of age daily grew on him. --Robertson. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury. [1913 Webster]
- The younger son gathered all together, and . . . wasted his substance with riotous living. --Luke xv. 13. [1913 Webster]
- Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. --Gray. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Law) To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To squander; dissipate; lavish; desolate. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'wasted'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ablated,
- acarpous,
- arid,
- atrophied,
- attenuated,
- ausgespielt,
- bankrupt,
- barren,
- blasted,
- blighted,
- brittle,
- broken,
- burned-out,
- burnt up,
- by the board,
- cadaverous,
- celibate,
- childless,
- consumed,
- corky,
- corpselike,
- depleted,
- desert,
- desiccated,
- desolate,
- desolated,
- destroyed,
- devastated,
- devitalized,
- disabled,
- dissipated,
- done for,
- done in,
- down the drain,
- down-and-out,
- drained,
- dried-up,
- dry,
- eaten up,
- effete,
- emacerated,
- emaciate,
- emaciated,
- enervated,
- enfeebled,
- eroded,
- eviscerated,
- exhausted,
- expended,
- fallen,
- fallow,
- fatigued,
- finished,
- forfeit,
- forfeited,
- fruitless,
- gaunt,
- gelded,
- gone,
- gone to pot,
- gone to waste,
- haggard,
- hollow-eyed,
- impotent,
- impoverished,
- in ruins,
- incapacitated,
- ineffectual,
- infecund,
- infertile,
- irremediable,
- irretrievable,
- issueless,
- jejune,
- kaput,
- leached,
- long-lost,
- lost,
- lost to,
- marantic,
- marasmic,
- meager,
- menopausal,
- misspent,
- nonfertile,
- nonproducing,
- nonproductive,
- nonprolific,
- out the window,
- overthrown,
- papery,
- parched,
- parchmenty,
- peaked,
- peaky,
- pinched,
- played out,
- poor,
- preshrunk,
- puny,
- ravaged,
- ruined,
- ruinous,
- run to seed,
- run-down,
- Sanforized,
- sapped,
- sear,
- sere,
- shriveled,
- shriveled up,
- shrunk,
- shrunken,
- sine prole,
- skeletal,
- spent,
- spoiled,
- squandered,
- starved,
- starveling,
- sterile,
- sucked dry,
- tabetic,
- tabid,
- teemless,
- thin,
- uncultivated,
- underfed,
- undernourished,
- undone,
- unfertile,
- unfruitful,
- unplowed,
- unproductive,
- unprolific,
- unsown,
- untilled,
- used,
- used up,
- virgin,
- waste,
- wasted away,
- weakened,
- weazened,
- weazeny,
- wilted,
- withered,
- without issue,
- wizen,
- wizen-faced,
- wizened,
- worn,
- worn away,
- worn-out,
- wraithlike,
- wrecked,
- wrinkled
Words containing 'Wasted'
- Wast,
- Waste,
- Wasteful,
- Wastefully,
- Wastefulness,
- Wasteness,
- Wasting,
- Cop waste,
- Cotton waste,
- Impeachment of waste,
- Soda waste,
- To lay waste,
- Voluntary waste,
- Waste gate,
- Waste paper,
- Waste pipe,
- Waste steam,
- Waste trap,
- Wasting palsy,
- alkali waste,
- body waste,
- food waste,
- human waste,
- lay waste,
- lay waste to,
- laying waste,
- permissive waste,
- radioactive waste,
- toxic waste,
- waste away,
- waste basket,
- waste material,
- waste matter,
- waste of effort,
- waste of energy,
- waste of material,
- waste of money,
- waste of time,
- waste product,
- waste time,
- wasting away,
- wasting disease,
- chronic wasting disease,
- toxic industrial waste,
- toxic waste area,
- toxic waste dump,
- toxic waste site,
- waste one's time,
- waste-yard,
- waste-paper basket,
- high-level radioactive waste,
- low-level radioactive waste,
- blasted desolate desolated devastated ravaged ruined wasted