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English adjective: wasted | |||
| 1. | wasted serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being | ||
| Samples | Otiose lines in a play. Advice is wasted words. A pointless remark. A life essentially purposeless. Senseless violence. | ||
| Synonyms | otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous | ||
| Similar | worthless | ||
| Antonyms | valuable | ||
| 2. | wasted not used to good advantage | ||
| Samples | Squandered money cannot be replaced. A wasted effort. | ||
| Synonyms | squandered | ||
| Similar | lost | ||
| Antonyms | found | ||
| 3. | wasted (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use | ||
| Samples | Partial paralysis resulted in an atrophied left arm. | ||
| Synonyms | atrophied, diminished | ||
| Antonyms | enlarged, hypertrophied | ||
| 4. | wasted very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | ||
| Samples | 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 | ||
| Similar | lean, thin | ||
| Antonyms | fat | ||
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