wastedadjective
uk/ˈweɪs.tɪd/us/ˈweɪs.tɪd/wasted adjective (BADLY USED)
Wasted time, money, etc. is time, money, etc. that is not used effectively because it does not produce the result you wanted:
He wasn't in when I got there, so it was a completely wasted journey.
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Wasting
- boondoggle
- dissipate
- down the drain idiom
- fritter
- fritter sth away
- lose
- piss sth away
- prodigal
- profligate
- reinvent
- reinvent the wheel idiom
- throw
- toss
- toss sth away
- uneconomic
- wastage
- waste
- waste not, want not idiom
- wasteful
- waster
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wasted adjective (THIN)
very thin and weak as a result of being ill or having no food:
Underneath the hospital blankets I could see the outline of her poor wasted body.
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Animal physiology: thin or slender (of people)
- anorexic
- be skin and bone(s) idiom
- elfin
- emaciated
- gaunt
- hatchet-faced
- lissome
- lithe
- pinched
- rangy
- skinny
- slenderize
- slight
- spare
- spindly
- sylphlike
- trim
- underweight
- waif-like
- wiry
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Not fit & healthy
wasted adjective (DRUNK)
slang very drunk or illfrom drugs:
He was too wasted to drive.
Paula was completely wasted after only one drink.
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Drunkenness & sobriety
- a drop too much (to drink) idiom
- alcoholic
- battered
- be as high as a kite idiom
- beer goggles
- binge drinking
- blasted
- bombed
- inebriate
- inebriated
- influence
- intoxicate
- intoxicated
- muzzy
- sloshed
- sober (sb) up
- sobriety
- sot
- soused
- whacked
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