wasted
adjective
[ ˈweɪstɪd ]
• used or expended carelessly or to no purpose.
• "wasted fuel"
Similar:
squandered,
misspent,
misdirected,
misused,
dissipated,
frittered away,
pointless,
useless,
unnecessary,
needless,
not needed,
blown,
splurged,
missed,
lost,
past,
forfeited,
neglected,
bungled,
gone,
gone by the board,
down the drain,
• (of a person or a part of the body) weak or emaciated.
• "her wasted arm"
Similar:
emaciated,
atrophied,
withered,
shrivelled,
weak,
weakened,
frail,
shrunken,
skeletal,
rickety,
scrawny,
cadaverous,
wilted,
faded,
flagging,
deteriorating,
degenerative,
gaunt,
haggard,
wizened,
undernourished,
starved,
half-starved,
• under the influence of alcohol or illegal drugs.
• "he looked kind of wasted"
Similar:
drunk,
drunken,
inebriated,
intoxicated,
befuddled,
incapable,
tipsy,
the worse for drink,
under the influence,
maudlin,
blind drunk,
dead drunk,
rolling drunk,
roaring drunk,
(as) drunk as a lord,
(as) drunk as a skunk,
sottish,
tippling,
toping,
gin-soaked,
tight,
merry,
the worse for wear,
woozy,
pie-eyed,
two/three sheets to the wind,
under the table,
plastered,
smashed,
wrecked,
sloshed,
well oiled,
sozzled,
soused,
blotto,
blitzed,
canned,
stewed,
pickled,
tanked (up),
soaked,
bombed,
hammered,
blasted,
off one's face,
out of/off one's head,
out of one's skull,
wired,
in one's cups,
reeling,
cock-eyed,
zonked,
guttered,
fuddled,
stinko,
ratted,
legless,
steaming,
bevvied,
paralytic,
Brahms and Liszt,
half cut,
out of it,
having had a skinful,
bladdered,
trolleyed,
well away,
squiffy,
tiddly,
out of one's box,
having had one over the eight,
cut,
steamed,
mullered,
slaughtered,
lashed,
fou,
full,
shickered,
shot,
turnt,
grogged up,
as full as a goog,
inked,
munted,
lekker,
tired and emotional,
stoned,
lit up,
as tight as a tick,
half seas over,
pixilated,
sotted,
besotted,
foxed,
screwed,
crapulent,
crapulous,
inebriate,
bibulous,
waste
verb
• use or expend carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose.
• "we can't afford to waste electricity"
Similar:
squander,
fritter away,
misspend,
misuse,
spend recklessly,
throw away,
lavish,
be wasteful with,
dissipate,
spend like water,
throw around like confetti,
go through,
run through,
exhaust,
drain,
deplete,
burn up,
use up,
consume,
blow,
splurge,
• (of a person or a part of the body) become progressively weaker and more emaciated.
• "she was visibly wasting away"
Similar:
grow weak,
wither,
atrophy,
become emaciated,
shrivel up,
shrink,
decay,
decline,
wilt,
fade,
flag,
deteriorate,
degenerate,
rot,
moulder,
languish,
be abandoned,
be neglected,
be forgotten,
be disregarded,
• devastate or ruin (a place).
• "he seized their cattle and wasted their country"
• (of time) pass away.
• "the years were wasting"
Origin:
Middle English: from Old Northern French wast(e ) (noun), waster (verb), based on Latin vastus ‘unoccupied, uncultivated’.
