Meaning of wasted in English
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wastedDefinitions
1. serving no useful purposeExamples
- « having no excuse for being »
- « otiose lines in a play »
- « advice is wasted words »
Synonyms
- 2. not used to good advantage
Examples
- « squandered money cannot be replaced »
- « a wasted effort »
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- 3. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
Examples
- « 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 »
Synonyms
- 4. made uninhabitable
Examples
- « upon this blasted heath- Shakespeare »
- « a wasted landscape »
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Qualitative Adjective
wastedDefinitions
1. (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of useExamples
- « partial paralysis resulted in an atrophied left arm »
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Famous quotes
- « I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written. » James Rollins
- « Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort. » Neil Gaiman
- « Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money. » Michael Porter
- « As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. » T. S. Eliot
- « We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar. » Charles Bukowski