Meanings
comparative more wasted · superlative most wasted
- Not profitably used.
Synonyms: down the toilet, misspent, squandered
- Ravaged or deteriorated.
Synonyms: clapped out, damaged, defective, deteriorated, dilapidated, effete, faulty, munted
- Emaciated and haggard.
Synonyms: anemic, breakable, broken-down, damaged, debilitated, decrepit, delicate, dickless
- slangExhausted.
A brief steep ascent and then a more gradual ascent through snow. Bets probably had taken my water container by then. Mack asks how I'm doing. I manage the words — pretty wasted. She offers to take the tent.
1982 February 13, Lee Swislow, “Amazon Trekking”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 29, page 9 - slangVery drunk or stoned.
Well I'm near the end and I just ain't got the time / And I'm wasted and I can't find my way home
1969, Steve Winwood, “Can't Find My Way Home”, performed by Blind Faith1 more example
I went to the minimart...It’s about a fifteen minute walk both ways. But I didn’t wanna drive cause I was really wasted.
2016, Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea, spoken by Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck)Synonyms: Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, bedrunken
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of waste
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveNot profitably used.
adjectiveRavaged or deteriorated.
adjectiveEmaciated and haggard.
adjectiveVery drunk or stoned.
adjectiveLow weight-for-height (for a person).
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveserving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
adjectivenot used to good advantage
adjective(of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use
adjectivevery thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Danish bortkastet
- bortkastetnot profitably used
Dutch kwijt
- kwijtvery drunk or stoned
Finnish haaskattu, hukkaanheitetty
- haaskattunot profitably used
- hukkaanheitettynot profitably used
- hävitettyravaged or deteriorated
- riutunutemaciated and haggard
- kännissävery drunk or stoned
- umpikännissävery drunk or stoned
- pilvessävery drunk or stoned
German vertan
- vertannot profitably used
Italian sprecato
- sprecatonot profitably used
Māori hauaitu, hauhauaitu
- hauaituemaciated and haggard
- hauhauaituemaciated and haggard
Norwegian Bokmål bortkastet
- bortkastetnot profitably used
Portuguese desperdiçado, devastado
- desperdiçadonot profitably used
- devastadoravaged or deteriorated
- mirradoemaciated and haggard
- chumbadovery drunk or stoned
- chapadovery drunk or stoned
- quinadovery drunk or stoned
- pedradovery drunk or stoned
- cegovery drunk or stoned
- mocadovery drunk or stoned
- tísicowith low weight-for-height
Spanish desperdiciado
- desperdiciadonot profitably used
Swedish bortkastad, tärd
- bortkastadnot profitably used
- tärdemaciated and haggard
- utmärglademaciated and haggard
Rhymes & wordplay
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Cite this entry
wasted. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wasted
“wasted.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wasted. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wasted,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wasted.
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