wastedadj.
/ˈweɪstᵻd/, U.S. /ˈweɪstᵻd/ 1. Laid waste, devastated, ravaged, ruined.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] > devastating > devastated
barec1305
waste1338
desolatea1382
yheryȝeda1440
wastedc1440
ruined1600
vastate1616
devasted1632
ravaged1657
divast1677
populated1747
devastated1813
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 517/2 Wastyd, vastatus.
1587 in Border Papers (1894) I. 259 This ruinose and waysted cuntre.
1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus v. i. 23 As I earnestly did fixe mine eye, Vpon the wasted building. View more context for this quotation
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iii. 102 If young African for fame His wasted Country freed from Punic rage. View more context for this quotation
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 70 Perfidious Mars..o're the wasted World in Triumph rides. View more context for this quotation
1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain iii. i. 128 Of wasted fields and plundered flocks The Borderers bootless may complain.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xx. 514 The sufferings of the thrice wasted Palatinate.
1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) IV. xviii. 197 Destroyed or wasted houses.
2. † b. Morally marred or defiled. Obsolete.
a. Diminished or reduced in substance, bulk, strength, health, etc.; worn, decayed.
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the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > by loss of material or wasted
wasted?a1513
bewasted1597
a1513 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen in Poems (1998) I. 43 A waistit wolroun.
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. ii. f. 112 Neither may we pretend this excuse that we want power, and like wasted detters be not able to pay.
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream v. ii. 5 Now the wasted brands doe glowe. View more context for this quotation
1653 E. Waterhouse Humble Apol. Learning 74 No more then it follows that a wasted man must get a child unhail, because he himself is consumptive.
1709 T. Robinson Ess. Nat. Hist. Westmorland & Cumberland vii. 47 Laid to Fallow, that it may..recover its wasted Strength.
1785 W. Cowper Task i. 128 Youth repairs His wasted spirits quickly.
1849 C. Brontë Shirley I. xi. 285 Keeping her pale face and wasted figure as much out of sight as she could.
1867 W. Morris Life & Death of Jason i. 14 And the thin, wasted, shining summer rills Grew joyful with the coming of the rain.
1883 D. C. Murray Hearts xv ‘You are better, Moore?’ Tom asked... ‘No,’ said the farmer in a wasted voice.
1919 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 166/2 Ribs and bones showed through their wasted bodies.
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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > corruption > [adjective]
sickc960
foulOE
unwholec1000
thewlessa1327
corrupt1340
viciousc1340
unwholesomec1374
infecta1387
rustyc1390
unsound?a1400
rottenc1400
rotten-heartedc1405
cankereda1450
infectedc1449
wasted1483
depravate?1520
poisoned1529
deformed1555
poisonous1555
reprobate1557
corrupted1563
prave1564
base-minded1573
tainted1577
Gomorrhean1581
vice-like1589
depraved1593
debauched1598
deboshedc1598
tarish1601
sunk1602
speckled1603
deboist1604
diseased1608
ulcerous1611
vitial1614
debauchc1616
deboise1632
pravous1653
depravea1711
unhealthy1821
scrofulous1842
septic1914
society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [adjective] > damaged morally
wasted1483
crazed1600
marred1611
cracked1709
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 188/b 2 Thou comest..whyche arte pure and clene to be baptysed and wasshen of me that am foule and wasted.
3. Spent, put forth, bestowed, used, unprofitably; squandered; misused; ‘thrown away’.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [adjective] > wasted
castaway?1542
consumed1580
profligated1599
profligate1718
wasted1741
1741 I. Watts Improvem. Mind i. xx. 329 But let them take great Care lest they entrench upon more necessary Employments, and so fall under the Charge and Censure of wasted Time.
1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 230 Our wasted oil unprofitably burns.
1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 225 A world..most pleas'd when idle most; Whose only happy are their wasted hours.
1883 R. Whitelaw tr. Sophocles Oedipus the King 365 Say what thou wilt: 'twill be but wasted breath.
1894 Lady M. Verney Verney Mem. III. 352 His blighted hopes and wasted opportunities.
4. Of time: Gone by, elapsed.
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the world > time > [adjective] > passing or elapsing > passed or elapsed
overworn1593
wasted1609
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets cvi. sig. G3 When in the Chronicle of wasted time, I see discriptions of the fairest wights. View more context for this quotation
1781 W. Cowper Retirem. 13 The remnant of his wasted span.
5. Intoxicated (from drink or drugs). Chiefly used outside the U.K.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk
fordrunkenc897
drunkena1050
cup-shottenc1330
drunka1400
inebriate1497
overseenc1500
liquor1509
fou1535
nase?1536
full1554
intoxicate1554
tippled1564
intoxicated1576
pepst1577
overflown1579
whip-cat1582
pottical1586
cup-shota1593
fox-drunk1592
lion-drunk1592
nappy1592
sack-sopped1593
in drink1598
disguiseda1600
drink-drowned1600
daggeda1605
pot-shotten1604
tap-shackled1604
high1607
bumpsy1611
foxed1611
in one's cups1611
liquored1611
love-pot1611
pot-sick1611
whift1611
owl-eyed1613
fapa1616
hota1616
inebriated1615
reeling ripea1616
in one's (or the) pots1618
scratched1622
high-flown?1624
pot-shot1627
temulentive1628
ebrious1629
temulent1629
jug-bitten1630
pot-shaken1630
toxed1635
bene-bowsiea1637
swilled1637
paid1638
soaken1651
temulentious1652
flagonal1653
fuddled1656
cut1673
nazzy1673
concerned1678
whittled1694
suckey1699
well-oiled1701
tippeda1708
tow-row1709
wet1709
swash1711
strut1718
cocked1737
cockeyed1737
jagged1737
moon-eyed1737
rocky1737
soaked1737
soft1737
stewed1737
stiff1737
muckibus1756
groggy1770
muzzeda1788
muzzya1795
slewed1801
lumpy1810
lushy1811
pissed1812
blue1813
lush1819
malty1819
sprung1821
three sheets in the wind1821
obfuscated1822
moppy1823
ripe1823
mixed1825
queer1826
rosined1828
shot in the neck1830
tight1830
rummy1834
inebrious1837
mizzled1840
obflisticated1840
grogged1842
pickled1842
swizzled1843
hit under the wing1844
obfusticatedc1844
ebriate1847
pixilated1848
boozed1850
ploughed1853
squiffy?1855
buffy1858
elephant trunk1859
scammered1859
gassed1863
fly-blown1864
rotten1864
shot1864
ebriose1871
shicker1872
parlatic1877
miraculous1879
under the influence1879
ginned1881
shickered1883
boiled1886
mosy1887
to be loaded for bear(s)1888
squiffeda1890
loaded1890
oversparred1890
sozzled1892
tanked1893
orey-eyed1895
up the (also a) pole1897
woozy1897
toxic1899
polluted1900
lit-up1902
on (also upon) one's ear1903
pie-eyed1903
pifflicated1905
piped1906
spiflicated1906
jingled1908
skimished1908
tin hat1909
canned1910
pipped1911
lit1912
peloothered1914
molo1916
shick1916
zigzag1916
blotto1917
oiled-up1918
stung1919
stunned1919
bottled1922
potted1922
rotto1922
puggled1923
puggle1925
fried1926
crocked1927
fluthered1927
lubricated1927
whiffled1927
liquefied1928
steamed1929
mirackc1930
overshot1931
swacked1932
looped1934
stocious1937
whistled1938
sauced1939
mashed1942
plonked1943
stone1945
juiced1946
buzzed1952
jazzed1955
schnockered1955
honkers1957
skunked1958
bombed1959
zonked1959
bevvied1960
mokus1960
snockered1961
plotzed1962
over the limit1966
the worse for wear1966
wasted1968
wired1970
zoned1971
blasted1972
Brahms and Liszt?1972
funked up1976
trousered1977
motherless1980
tired and emotional1981
ratted1982
rat-arsed1984
wazzed1990
mullered1993
twatted1993
bollocksed1994
lashed1996
1968–70 Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) 3–4 135 Wasted, a. Drunk; unable to function.
1972 J. S. Gunn in G. W. Turner Good Austral. Eng. iii. 56 Being under the influence is..turned on, wasted.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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