Meaning of wasted in English
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Classifying Adjective
wastedDefinitions
1. serving no useful purposeExamples
- « having no excuse for being »
- « otiose lines in a play »
- « advice is wasted words »
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- 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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