Synonyms for wasted
ˈweɪ stɪdwast·ed

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1. wasted

   Synonyms:
   delicate, diseased, emaciated, exhausted, failing, fainting, fragile, frail, ill, sick, unhealthy, unsound, weak, worn, worn down, worn out

   Antonyms:
   hale, healthful, healthy, hearty, hygienic, salubrious, salutary, sanitary, sound, strong, vigorous, well, wholesome

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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"

   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

   Antonyms:
   fat, valuable, found

2. squandered, wastedadjective

   not used to good advantage

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

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

   Antonyms:
   fat, found, valuable

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"

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

   Antonyms:
   found, valuable, fat

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"

   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

   Antonyms:
   valuable, fat, found

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1. List of paraphrases for "wasted":

   squandered, lost, missed, ruined, frittered, stoned, drunk

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1. William Shakespeare:

   I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

2. 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.

3. Steve Hilton:

   Trillions of dollars wasted, thousands of American lives lost.

4. Hannah Baxter:

   Although I'm a certified beauty fanatic, it pains me to witness all of the wasted packaging that isn't recyclable wind up in landfills, i think a lot of people would be surprised to learn that bottle pumps, which are so ubiquitous, can't be recycled since many of the metal components are too small. That's why I'm a big fan of companies that offer refillable containers and that sell bulk refills so I can keep my original bottle and pump for years.

5. Bertrand Russell:

   The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.