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. John Koenig:

   We should consider the idea that youth is not actually wasted on the young. That their dramas are no more grand than they should be. That their emotions make perfect sense, once you adjust for inflation. For someone going through adolescence, life feels epic and tragic simply because it is.

2. Nick Kyrgios:

   I just thought I'd never be at a semifinal of a grand slam. Honestly, I thought my ship had sailed. Obviously, I didn't go about things great earlier in my career and may have wasted that little window but you know,( I'm) just really proud of the way that I've just come back out here and with my team just to be able to put on a performance.

3. Jeroen Dijsselbloem:

   I hope that they are as quick as possible so that the least possible amount of time is wasted.

4. Philip Kinisu:

   Kenya's budget is now approaching 2 trillion shillings; a third of it is being wasted through corruption.

5. Neal McCluskey:

   It would deal with the problem of student debt, but it exacerbates a whole bunch of other problems to the point I don’t think it would be a net gain, I actually think it may be a net loss, you may not see prices rising as much, but you will still see huge amounts of wasted money, as people are encouraged to consume more education, and they’ll do it less efficiently as they aren’t presented with a price.