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Synonyms 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"

    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

    Antonyms:
    fat, valuable, found

  2. squandered, wastedadjective

    not used to good advantage

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

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

    Antonyms:
    fat, found, valuable

  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"

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

    Antonyms:
    found, valuable, fat

  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"

    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

    Antonyms:
    valuable, fat, found

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  1. List of paraphrases for "wasted":

    squandered, lost, missed, ruined, frittered, stoned, drunk

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#4358sick
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#8215failing
#9125lazy
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#14236fragile
#14778exhausted
#15234nasal
#17621skeletal
#17833diminished
#18218ruined
#18270pointless
#18688mindless
#21933weakened
#23834unhealthy
#26975futile
#28403stoned
#31681haggard
#32523frail
#33192diseased
#35057senseless
#35699superfluous
#40094bony
#44199fainting
#44263boney
#45025pinched
#48311lessened
#49528gaunt
#53805unsound
#54883squandered
#61666ineffectual
#75520penniless
#80300indolent
#89296emaciated
#101823witless
#102330insensible
#109464unavailing
#112633osseous
#114369cadaveric
#114767slothful
#118122supernumerary
#133788belittled
#148311purposeless
#149128atrophied
#155827vitiated
#194565cadaverous
#226134frittered
#268536impecunious
#302251careworn
#313943penurious

How to use wasted in a sentence?

  1. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

    Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted, If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

  2. POET MD HEDAETUL ISLAM:

    The time he wasted ruined his life the time he wasted ruined his future. POET MD HEDAETUL ISLAM

  3. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

    Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted, If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

  4. Bruce Schulte:

    They told 51 percent of the Anchorage voters who passed this that their time and energy has been wasted because 11 members of the Assembly know better, That's not good governance.

  5. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

    Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.


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