WASTED as ADJECTIVE

1. Meaning
   • (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use
   Synonym(s)
   • atrophied (what does atrophied mean?)
   • diminished (what does diminished mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • partial paralysis resulted in an atrophied left arm
   Antonym(s)
   • hypertrophied (what does hypertrophied mean?)
   • enlarged (what does enlarged mean?)
2. Meaning
   • made uninhabitable
   Synonym(s)
   • blasted (what does blasted mean?)
   • desolate (what does desolate mean?)
   • desolated (what does desolated mean?)
   • devastated (what does devastated mean?)
   • ravaged (what does ravaged mean?)
   • ruined (what does ruined mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • upon this blasted heath- Shakespeare
   • a wasted landscape
   Similar To
   • destroyed (what does destroyed mean?)
3. Meaning
   • very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
   Synonym(s)
   • bony (what does bony mean?)
   • cadaverous (what does cadaverous mean?)
   • emaciated (what does emaciated mean?)
   • gaunt (what does gaunt mean?)
   • haggard (what does haggard mean?)
   • pinched (what does pinched mean?)
   • skeletal (what does skeletal mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • 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
   Similar To
   • thin (what does thin mean?)
   • lean (what does lean mean?)
4. Meaning
   • not used to good advantage
   Synonym(s)
   • squandered (what does squandered mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • squandered money cannot be replaced
   • a wasted effort
   Similar To
   • lost (what does lost mean?)
5. Meaning
   • serving no useful purpose
   • having no excuse for being
   Synonym(s)
   • otiose (what does otiose mean?)
   • pointless (what does pointless mean?)
   • superfluous (what does superfluous mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • otiose lines in a play
   • advice is wasted words
   Similar To
   • worthless (what does worthless mean?)