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Antonyms for wasted
ˈweɪ stɪdwast·ed

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

    serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being

    "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless"; "senseless violence"

    Antonyms:
    fat, valuable, found

    Synonyms:
    spare, gaunt, work-shy, supernumerary, diminished, unpointed, lazy, slothful, emaciated, pinched, surplus, cadaverous, superfluous, faineant, ineffectual, futile, mindless, witless, supererogatory, excess, redundant, nitwitted, insensible, haggard, senseless, purposeless, unavailing, reasonless, skeletal, pointless, atrophied, soft-witted, indolent, otiose, extra, bony, squandered

  2. squandered, wastedadjective

    not used to good advantage

    "squandered money cannot be replaced"; "a wasted effort"

    Antonyms:
    fat, found, valuable

    Synonyms:
    superfluous, bony, haggard, atrophied, skeletal, cadaverous, emaciated, otiose, pointless, senseless, diminished, gaunt, squandered, purposeless, pinched

  3. atrophied, wasted, diminishedadjective

    (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"

    Antonyms:
    found, valuable, fat

    Synonyms:
    pinched, senseless, otiose, diminished, atrophied, gaunt, squandered, purposeless, lessened, superfluous, skeletal, emaciated, vitiated, haggard, belittled, cadaverous, weakened, small, bony, pointless

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

    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"

    Antonyms:
    valuable, fat, found

    Synonyms:
    pinched, haggard, atrophied, in straitened circumstances(p), boney, osteal, diminished, drawn, nasal, senseless, gaunt, adenoidal, squandered, purposeless, penurious, hard up, otiose, penniless, osseous, superfluous, skeletal, cadaveric, cadaverous, careworn, raddled, bony, impecunious, worn, emaciated, pointless

How to use wasted in a sentence?

  1. George Bernard Shaw:

    The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

  2. Pete Schulte:

    He thought that maybe something had happened inside and, of course, we did ask the question, Why didnt you call us, the DeSoto Police Department? and like most people sayis like, I just wanted to know what was going on before I wasted a call to 911.

  3. John Sopko:

    The bottom line is too much has been wasted in Afghanistan. Too much money was spent in too small a country with too little oversight, and if the security situation continues to deteriorate, even areas where money was spent wisely and gains were made, could be jeopardized.

  4. Donald Trump:

    You're talking about millions and millions and millions of dollars of wasted money, there's been absolutely no collusion. But there has been a lot of collusion by the The Democrats, with Russia and a lot of other people that maybe they shouldn't have been dealing with, including very dishonest people.

  5. Peter Beyer:

    There is no time to be wasted on etiquette.

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#2615healthy
#4080valuable
#12442wasted
#13478sanitary
#13626hale
#19156vigorous
#23927hearty
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#39413healthful
#78072salutary
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