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Antonyms for wasted
ˈweɪ stɪdwast·ed

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  1. otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wastedadjective

    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"

    Antonyms:
    fat, valuable, found

    Synonyms:
    spare, gaunt, work-shy, supernumerary, diminished, unpointed, lazy, slothful, emaciated, pinched, surplus, cadaverous, superfluous, faineant, ineffectual, futile, mindless, witless, supererogatory, excess, redundant, nitwitted, insensible, haggard, senseless, purposeless, unavailing, reasonless, skeletal, pointless, atrophied, soft-witted, indolent, otiose, extra, bony, squandered

  2. squandered, wastedadjective

    not used to good advantage

    "squandered money cannot be replaced"; "a wasted effort"

    Antonyms:
    fat, found, valuable

    Synonyms:
    superfluous, bony, haggard, atrophied, skeletal, cadaverous, emaciated, otiose, pointless, senseless, diminished, gaunt, squandered, purposeless, pinched

  3. atrophied, wasted, diminishedadjective

    (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"

    Antonyms:
    found, valuable, fat

    Synonyms:
    pinched, senseless, otiose, diminished, atrophied, gaunt, squandered, purposeless, lessened, superfluous, skeletal, emaciated, vitiated, haggard, belittled, cadaverous, weakened, small, bony, pointless

  4. bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wastedadjective

    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"

    Antonyms:
    valuable, fat, found

    Synonyms:
    pinched, haggard, atrophied, in straitened circumstances(p), boney, osteal, diminished, drawn, nasal, senseless, gaunt, adenoidal, squandered, purposeless, penurious, hard up, otiose, penniless, osseous, superfluous, skeletal, cadaveric, cadaverous, careworn, raddled, bony, impecunious, worn, emaciated, pointless

How to use wasted in a sentence?

  1. EZEBULUNWO PRUDENCE UYODHU:

    STATEMENTS Words that come forth from the mouth regardless of who spoke them, are important.... Words should not be wasted because: there is a word in those words that is the word meant for you to build your walls in this world

  2. Harry S Truman:

    I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.

  3. Andy Herrmann:

    It's costing us money to repair our cars from damaged roads and bridges, it's costing us money( on time) wasted in traffic -- costing us money on gasoline that we have to spend because we're just sitting wasting it idling.

  4. Mark Twain:

    Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

  5. Jeroen Dijsselbloem:

    I hope that they are as quick as possible so that the least possible amount of time is wasted.

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#157well
#295found
#803sound
#1340strong
#1690fat
#2615healthy
#4080valuable
#12442wasted
#13478sanitary
#13626hale
#19156vigorous
#23927hearty
#29956wholesome
#35453hygienic
#39413healthful
#78072salutary
#183371salubrious

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