Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email
Answers.com

wasted

 
Dictionary: wast·ed   ('stĭd) pronunciation
adj.
  1. Not profitably used or maintained: a wasted inheritance.
  2. Needless or superfluous: These are wasted words.
  3. Deteriorated; ravaged: a wasted landscape.
  4. Frail and enfeebled, as from prolonged illness; emaciated.
  5. Slang. Drunk or intoxicated.
  6. Archaic. Having elapsed.

Search unanswered questions...
Enter a question here...
Search: All sources Community Q&A Reference topics
Thesaurus: wasted
Top

adjective

    Physically haggard: cadaverous, drawn, emaciated, gaunt, shrunken, skeletal. Idioms: skin and bones. See better/worse, tired/fresh.

Extremely drunk or, in Vietnam, killed.

WordNet: wasted
Top
Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.

The adjective has 5 meanings:

Meaning #1: serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
  Synonyms: otiose, pointless, superfluous

Meaning #2: not used to good advantage
  Synonym: squandered

Meaning #3: (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use
  Synonyms: atrophied, diminished

Meaning #4: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
  Synonyms: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal

Meaning #5: made uninhabitable
  Synonyms: blasted, desolate, desolated, devastated, ravaged, ruined


Wikipedia: Wasted
Top

Wasted may refer to:

Television

Music

Other


 
 
Learn More
Shannon, R. (Quotes By)
unspilt
Trotman, Dawson (Quotes By)

Post a question - any question - to the WikiAnswers community:

 

Copyrights:

Dictionary. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2007, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more
Thesaurus. Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary Copyright © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more
Marine Corps Dictionary. Copyright © 2003 "Unofficial Dictionary for Marines" compiled and edited by Glenn B. Knight  Read more
WordNet. WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.  Read more
Wikipedia. This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Wasted" Read more