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Wasted

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Adjective

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

serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being

Example Sentences:
'otiose lines in a play'
'advice is wasted words'
'a pointless remark'
'a life essentially purposeless'
'senseless violence'

2. squandered, wasted

not used to good advantage

Example Sentences:
'squandered money cannot be replaced'
'a wasted effort'

3. atrophied, diminished, wasted

(of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use

Example Sentences:
'partial paralysis resulted in an atrophied left arm'

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

very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

Example Sentences:
'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'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Wasted

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adjective
1. 
not exploited or taken advantage of
a wasted opportunity
2. 
useless or unprofitable
wasted effort
3. 
physically enfeebled and emaciated
a thin wasted figure
4. slang
showing signs of habitual drug abuse

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Wasted

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adjective Slang
1. 
intoxicated by a drug
2. 
drunk

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Wasted

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adj.
1. Not profitably used or maintained: a wasted inheritance.
2. Needless or superfluous: These are wasted words.
3. Deteriorated; ravaged: a wasted landscape.
4. Frail and enfeebled, as from prolonged illness; emaciated.
5. Slang Drunk or intoxicated.
6. Archaic Having elapsed.

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