wasted
1. not used to good advantage (Freq. 1)
- squandered money cannot be replaced
- a wasted effort
• Syn:
squandered
• Similar to:
lost
2. serving no useful purpose;
having no excuse for being (Freq. 1)
- otiose lines in a play
- advice is wasted words
- a pointless remark
- a life essentially purposeless
- senseless violence
• Syn:
otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous
• Similar to:
worthless
• Derivationally related forms:
senselessness (for: senseless), purposelessness (for: purposeless), pointlessness (for: pointless)
3. 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
• Syn:
bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard,
pinched, skeletal
• Similar to:
thin, lean
• Derivationally related forms:
gauntness (for: gaunt), boniness (for: bony), bonyness (for: bony)
4. (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
• Syn:
atrophied, diminished
• Ant:
hypertrophied (for: atrophied)
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