Meaning of wasted in English

1. Pronunciation

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1. Classifying Adjective

   wasted

   Definitions

   1. serving no useful purpose

   Examples

   • « having no excuse for being »
   • « otiose lines in a play »
   • « advice is wasted words »

   Synonyms

   • worthless
2. 2. not used to good advantage

   Examples

   • « squandered money cannot be replaced »
   • « a wasted effort »

   Synonyms

   • lost
3. 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

   • thin
   • lean
4. 4. made uninhabitable

   Examples

   • « upon this blasted heath- Shakespeare »
   • « a wasted landscape »

   Synonyms

   • destroyed

5. Qualitative Adjective

   wasted

   Definitions

   1. (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use

   Examples

   • « partial paralysis resulted in an atrophied left arm »

   Antonyms

   • hypertrophied
   • enlarged