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Antonyms for wasted
ˈweɪ stɪdwast·ed

This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term wasted.

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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. Carl Hall:

    The amount of time that is spent in that 911 center getting to the right location is time wasted getting responders to the scene.

  2. Elaine Liu:

    I'll be graduating in two months and looking for jobs, there's really no time to be wasted on international flights and quarantine.

  3. Courtesy Kassandra Jones -RRB-:

    I’ve probably wasted a year of my life … getting financial advice, going to workshops, researching on the internet, talking to people, applying for grants and scholarships to no avail and very little success.

  4. Keith Stroup:

    It’s a good move because it saves money that is being absolutely wasted at this point.

  5. Dr. Jose P. Rizal:

    It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted in the field without becoming part of an edifice. (El Filibusterismo)

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#295found
#803sound
#1340strong
#1690fat
#2615healthy
#4080valuable
#12442wasted
#13478sanitary
#13626hale
#19156vigorous
#23927hearty
#29956wholesome
#35453hygienic
#39413healthful
#78072salutary
#183371salubrious

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