wasted

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/ˈweɪstɪd/

adjective

Not profitably used.

CommonScrabble 10

Meanings

adjectivewasted (comparative more wasted, superlative most wasted)

comparative more wasted · superlative most wasted

  1. 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
  2. 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 Faith
    1 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

  3. medicineLow weight-for-height (for a person).

    Synonyms: underweight

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of waste

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveNot profitably used.

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

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Cite this entry
APA

wasted. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wasted

MLA

“wasted.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wasted. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wasted,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wasted.

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