wasted meaning and definition

WASTED adjective

Definition of wasted (adjective)

1. 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"
   • synonyms: otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous
2. not used to good advantage
   • "squandered money cannot be replaced"; "a wasted effort"
   • synonyms: squandered
3. (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"
   • synonyms: atrophied, diminished
   • antonym: enlarged
4. 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"
   • synonyms: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal