Definitions for wasted

• Definition
• Anagrams (131)

wasted wast·ed

Spelling: [wey-stid]

IPA: /ˈweɪ stɪd/

Wasted is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 131 anagrams from letters in wasted (adestw).

Definitions for wasted

noun

1. useless consumption or expenditure; use without adequate return; an act or instance of wasting:
2. neglect, instead of use:
3. gradual destruction, impairment, or decay:
4. devastation or ruin, as from war or fire.
5. a region or place devastated or ruined:
6. anything unused, unproductive, or not properly utilized.
7. an uncultivated tract of land.
8. a wild region or tract of land; desolate country, desert, or the like.
9. an empty, desolate, or dreary tract or extent:
10. anything left over or superfluous, as excess material or by-products, not of use for the work in hand:
11. remnants, as from the working of cotton, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil, etc.
12. Physical Geography. material derived by mechanical and chemical disintegration of rock, as the detritus transported by streams, rivers, etc.
13. garbage; refuse.
14. wastes, excrement.

Idioms

1. go to waste, to fail to be used or consumed; be wasted:
2. lay waste, to devastate; destroy; ruin:

adjective

1. waste (defs 26–28).
2. done to no avail; useless:
3. physically or psychologically exhausted; debilitated:
4. Slang. overcome by the influence of alcohol or drugs.
5. Archaic. (of time) gone by.
6. not used or in use:
7. (of land, regions, etc.) wild, desolate, barren, or uninhabited; desert.
8. (of regions, towns, etc.) in a state of desolation and ruin, as from devastation or decay.
9. left over or superfluous:
10. having served or fulfilled a purpose; no longer of use.
11. rejected as useless or worthless; refuse:
12. Physiology. pertaining to material unused by or unusable to the organism.
13. designed or used to receive, hold, or carry away excess, superfluous, used, or useless material (often in combination):
14. Obsolete. excessive; needless.

verb (used with object)

1. to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander:
2. to fail or neglect to use:
3. to destroy or consume gradually; wear away:
4. to wear down or reduce in bodily substance, health, or strength; emaciate; enfeeble:
5. to destroy, devastate, or ruin:
6. Slang. to kill or murder.

verb (used without object)

1. to be consumed, spent, or employed uselessly or without giving full value or being fully utilized or appreciated.
2. to become gradually consumed, used up, or worn away:
3. to become physically worn; lose flesh or strength; become emaciated or enfeebled.
4. to diminish gradually; dwindle, as wealth, power, etc.:
5. to pass gradually, as time.

Origin of wasted

late Middle English word dating back to 1400-50; See origin at waste, -ed²

Examples for wasted

I've wasted nearly three hours here now, dilly-dallying along.

Numerous drug companies have spent (i.e., wasted) hundreds of millions of dollars proving this fact.

These matters did not interest the searcher in the slightest; they only wasted his precious time.

Prosecutor Alessandro Leopizzi wasted no time in repeating the transcript to ask Schettino to confirm his words.

But he had nothing to show for the time he had spent or the money he had wasted.

Why, we wasted enough from breakfast to feed a small family.

An American general who “wasted” troops was looked on very unkindly by the civilian population and by the troops themselves.

But whether it was the food she gave him or what, 'e was that wasted you wouldn't have known him.

Excited, Shaheen wasted no time and began interviewing surgeons, deciding upon Dr. Curtis Crane in Greenbrae, California.

It is a precious opportunity to strike a blow unto the very heart of the wedding-industrial complex and must not be wasted.