What are some opposite words for waste?
Antonyms for waste
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
waste
Excess is more than enough of anything, and, since this in very many cases indicates a lack either of judgment or of self-control, the word is used frequently in an unfavorable sense. Careless expenditure in excess of income is extravagance; we may have also extravagance of language, professions, etc. As extravagance is excess in outlay, exorbitance is excess in demands, and especially in pecuniary demands upon others. Overplus and superabundance denote in the main a satisfactory, and superfluity an undesirable, excess; lavishness and profusion, a generous, bountiful, or amiable excess; as, a profusion of fair hair; lavishness of hospitality. Surplus is neutral, having none of the unfavorable meaning that often attaches to excess; a surplus is that which remains over after all demands are met. Redundance or redundancy refers chiefly to literary style, denoting an excess of words or matter. Excess in the moral sense is expressed by dissipation, prodigality, intemperance, etc.
Antonyms:
dearth, defect, deficiency, destitution, economy, failure, frugality, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, need, poverty, scantiness, shortcoming, wantSynonyms:
dissipation, excess, exorbitance, extravagance, intemperance, lavishness, overplus, prodigality, profusion, redundance, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, surplus, wastefulness
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
waste
Antonyms:
restore, repair, conserve, preserve, perpetuate, protect, husband, economize, utilize, hoard, treasure, accumulate, enrich, flourish, luxuriate, multiply, augment, developSynonyms:
ruin, destroy, devastate, impair, consume, squander, dissipate, throw away, diminish, impair, lavish, desolate, pine, decay, attenuate, dwindle, shrivel, wither, wane
Princeton's WordNet
waste, waste material, waste matter, waste productnoun
any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
"they collect the waste once a week"; "much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers"
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hospitable, economize, conserve, economise, husbandSynonyms:
waste product, thriftlessness, barren, permissive waste, wasteland, waste matter, dissipation, waste material, wastefulnesswaste, wastefulness, dissipationnoun
useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
"if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste"; "mindless dissipation of natural resources"
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hospitable, conserve, economise, economize, husbandSynonyms:
waste product, thriftlessness, licentiousness, barren, permissive waste, dissolution, profligacy, wasteland, looseness, waste matter, dissipation, waste material, wastefulnessthriftlessness, waste, wastefulnessnoun
the trait of wasting resources
"a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste"; "the wastefulness of missed opportunities"
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hospitable, economize, economise, husband, conserveSynonyms:
waste product, thriftlessness, waste matter, barren, wasteland, waste material, dissipation, permissive waste, wastefulnessbarren, waste, wastelandnoun
an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
"the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"
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hospitable, husband, economise, conserve, economizeSynonyms:
waste product, thriftlessness, barren, permissive waste, wastefulness, waste matter, dissipation, waste material, wastelandwaste, permissive wasteadjective
(law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
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hospitable, husband, economize, conserve, economiseSynonyms:
waste product, thriftlessness, barren, permissive waste, wasteland, waste matter, dissipation, waste material, wastefulnessgodforsaken, waste, wildverb
located in a dismal or remote area; desolate
"a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places"
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hospitable, husband, economize, conserve, economiseSynonyms:
furious, wild, dotty, savage, risky, barbarian, tempestuous, raving mad, violent, idle, hazardous, uncivilised, fantastic, untamed, raging, groundless, angry, barbaric, crazy, godforsaken, unfounded, baseless, uncivilized, gaga, unwarrantedwaste, blow, squanderverb
spend thoughtlessly; throw away
"He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"
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hospitable, economize, husband, conserve, economiseSynonyms:
rot, swash, gasconade, ravage, botch, neutralise, liquidate, ware, neutralize, muck up, mishandle, bumble, botch up, brag, blow, scourge, burn out, lay waste to, suck, fumble, shove along, flub, fellate, desolate, ball up, bluster, do in, run off, bollocks, macerate, mess up, shove off, louse up, squander, float, gas, bollix, languish, vaunt, screw up, muff, devastate, shoot a line, blow out, emaciate, bollocks up, foul up, pine away, knock off, fluff, drift, bobble, go down on, be adrift, bungle, consume, bollix up, tout, spoil, boast, bodgewasteverb
use inefficiently or inappropriately
"waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience"
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hospitable, economize, conserve, husband, economiseSynonyms:
run off, emaciate, blow, scourge, neutralise, devastate, ravage, neutralize, desolate, consume, macerate, ware, languish, liquidate, squander, pine away, do in, rot, knock off, lay waste towasteverb
get rid of
"We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer"
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hospitable, conserve, economise, husband, economizeSynonyms:
run off, emaciate, blow, scourge, neutralise, devastate, ravage, neutralize, desolate, consume, macerate, ware, languish, liquidate, squander, pine away, do in, rot, knock off, lay waste towaste, run offverb
run off as waste
"The water wastes back into the ocean"
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hospitable, conserve, husband, economize, economiseSynonyms:
rot, elope, ravage, decamp, neutralise, liquidate, go off, drive off, neutralize, beetle off, absquatulate, bolt, scourge, lay waste to, bolt out, drive out, turn back, do in, xerox, macerate, run out, chase away, make off, drive away, blow, squander, languish, devastate, dispel, emaciate, photocopy, pine away, knock off, abscond, desolate, ware, consume, run offneutralize, neutralise, liquidate, waste, knock off, do inverb
get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
"The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized"
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hospitable, economise, conserve, husband, economizeSynonyms:
rot, cop, nullify, ravage, hook, neutralise, fling off, shave, liquidate, ware, neutralize, countervail, blow, scourge, lay waste to, counteract, dash off, snitch, desolate, thieve, do in, macerate, scratch off, counterbalance, toss off, squander, languish, negate, devastate, pay off, emaciate, drop, pine away, knock off, consume, glom, run offconsume, squander, waste, wareverb
spend extravagantly
"waste not, want not"
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hospitable, economize, economise, husband, conserveSynonyms:
languish, exhaust, take in, eat up, neutralise, rot, liquidate, ware, neutralize, down, blow, scourge, take, lay waste to, use up, desolate, do in, macerate, ingest, eat, run through, go through, squander, wipe out, ravage, have, devastate, emaciate, pine away, knock off, devour, consume, deplete, run offpine away, waste, languishverb
lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
"After her husband died, she just pined away"
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hospitable, economise, conserve, husband, economizeSynonyms:
run off, emaciate, ache, blow, scourge, neutralise, devastate, yen, ravage, pine, neutralize, desolate, yearn, consume, macerate, ware, languish, liquidate, squander, pine away, do in, rot, fade, knock off, lay waste towaste, emaciate, macerateverb
cause to grow thin or weak
"The treatment emaciated him"
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hospitable, conserve, husband, economise, economizeSynonyms:
run off, emaciate, blow, scourge, neutralise, devastate, ravage, neutralize, desolate, consume, macerate, ware, languish, liquidate, squander, pine away, do in, rot, knock off, lay waste tolay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourgeverb
cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
"The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
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hospitable, conserve, economize, husband, economiseSynonyms:
harry, scourge, emaciate, flagellate, abandon, blow, forsake, run off, devastate, desert, neutralise, pine away, neutralize, desolate, consume, macerate, ware, depopulate, languish, liquidate, squander, ravage, do in, rot, knock off, lay waste towaste, rotverb
become physically weaker
"Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"
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hospitable, economize, economise, husband, conserveSynonyms:
moulder, run off, emaciate, blow, molder, scourge, decompose, neutralise, devastate, ravage, neutralize, desolate, consume, macerate, ware, languish, liquidate, squander, pine away, do in, rot, knock off, lay waste to
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
wasteadjective
Synonyms:
refuse, rejected, unused, unproductive, untilled, inarable, worthless, desolate, devastated, stripped, ravaged, pillaged, superfluous, exuberant, unnecessary, excrementitiouswastenoun
Synonyms:
wasting, squandering, dissipation, decrement, prodigality, wilderness, wild, desert, remnants, offal, recrement, garbage, refuse, rubbish, desolation, devastation rapine, ravage, havoc, destruction, sacking, pillage, despoliationwasteverb
Synonyms:
squander, misspend, fritter away, dissipate, dawdle, desolate, devastate, despoil, sack, pillage, ravage, strip, decline, decay, pine, wither, dwindle, molder
How to use waste in a sentence?
What if it were your family member that needed the services and the closest officer to your emergency was tied up on his fictitious call? The Coral Springs Police Department takes this seriously. I'm personally offended by the waste of our resources.
We heard from our grandfathers that they used cow dung for heating. But nobody had thought about the camel waste itself.
I do think New Blue Interactive’s New Blue Interactive and a waste of time for us to kind of try to home in on what’s in people’s grocery carts.
Whether it's continued delays in veterans' medical care, the blatant waste of billions of taxpayer dollars or a rampant lack of accountability throughout every corner of the organization, there is simply no denying that the problems at the Department of Veterans Affairs are indeed widespread.
It shows a lot about how left-wing people are. They want to control everything. I know that De Blasio is a De Blasio and De Blasio follows a lot of what Antonio Gramsci says, for them, everything’s about politics and ideology. I don't care about much of what De Blasio thinks, I do n’t waste my time listening to De Blasio.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#183 | need | |
#254 | want | |
#1482 | develop | |
#1666 | repair | |
#1779 | economy | |
#1980 | waste | |
#2157 | protect | |
#2278 | failure | |
#2498 | lack | |
#3301 | husband | |
#3761 | poverty | |
#5701 | restore | |
#6750 | preserve | |
#6968 | treasure | |
#8878 | utilize | |
#10327 | defect | |
#10765 | deficiency | |
#14330 | multiply | |
#19230 | accumulate | |
#19974 | conserve | |
#20449 | enrich | |
#23713 | flourish | |
#26007 | augment | |
#31954 | insufficiency | |
#38147 | perpetuate | |
#42868 | hoard | |
#43499 | hospitable | |
#43809 | inadequacy | |
#47177 | dearth | |
#55818 | shortcoming | |
#95106 | frugality | |
#95248 | destitution | |
#125327 | economize | |
#169405 | luxuriate | |
#282766 | economise |
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