WASTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wasted mean? 

• WASTED (adjective)
  The adjective WASTED has 4 senses:

1. serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being

2. not used to good advantage

3. (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use

4. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

  Familiarity information: WASTED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WASTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being

Synonyms:

otiose; pointless; purposeless; senseless; superfluous; wasted

Context example:

senseless violence

Similar:

worthless (lacking in usefulness or value)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not used to good advantage

Synonyms:

squandered; wasted

Context example:

a wasted effort

Similar:

lost (no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use

Synonyms:

atrophied; diminished; wasted

Context example:

partial paralysis resulted in an atrophied left arm

Sense 4

Meaning:

Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

Synonyms:

cadaverous; emaciated; gaunt; haggard; pinched; skeletal; wasted

Context example:

kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration

Similar:

lean; thin (lacking excess flesh)

 Context examples 

Everything was safe enough, and she smiled over the many anxious feelings she had wasted on the subject.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

It struck me that his hand looked wasted like his face.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

You see, Watson, he remarked, our evening has been by no means wasted.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had wasted no time with his teeth.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Then I don't feel as if I'd wasted my life.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Time, a very little time, I tell him, will do everything;—Marianne's heart is not to be wasted for ever on such a man as Willoughby.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

"I have wasted the charm of the Golden Cap to no purpose," she said, "for the Winged Monkeys cannot help me."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Those soft blue eyes, and all those natural graces, should not be wasted on the inferior society of Highbury and its connexions.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

He was too young to know better, but he robbed himself of life for the sake of thirty thousand a year that's clean wasted upon him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

If he has any expectations it is due to the fact that I have never wasted money, and I do not propose to begin to do so now.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)