Definition of 'wasted'
See also: waste
Adjective
- serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being; "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"
Synonyms: otiose pointless superfluous - not used to good advantage; "squandered money cannot be replaced"; "a wasted effort"
Synonyms: squandered - (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
Antonyms: hypertrophied enlarged - 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
