What does wasted mean?

Definitions for wasted
ˈweɪ stɪdwast·ed

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Princeton's WordNet

  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"

  2. squandered, wastedadjective

    not used to good advantage

    "squandered money cannot be replaced"; "a wasted effort"

  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"

  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"

Wiktionary

  1. wastedadjective

    Not profitably used.

  2. wastedadjective

    Ravaged or deteriorated.

  3. wastedadjective

    Emaciated and haggard.

  4. wastedadjective

    very drunk or stoned.

  5. wastedadjective

    low weight-for-height (for a person).

Wikipedia

  1. Wasted

    Wasted is a song written by Marv Green, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey, and recorded by American country music artist Carrie Underwood. It was released in February 2007 as the sixth and final single from her multi-platinum debut album, Some Hearts. The single began receiving country radio airplay as an album track, causing it to place on the US Country chart weeks before its official release as a single. In January 2007, Underwood filmed the video for the song in Tampa, Florida. This was her fourth music video, and it was released during the beginning of February. The music video premiered on CMT Loaded.com. Underwood performed the song on American Idol on March 8, 2007, after they paid her a tribute for her achievements since winning Idol in May 2005. She also performed the song live during the 2007 Academy of Country Music Awards on May 15.

ChatGPT

  1. wasted

    Wasted generally refers to something being used or expended without efficiency, yield, or adequate return, often carelessly or to no purpose. It can relate to time, resources, effort, or potential. Additionally, in a medical or slang context, it can describe someone being in a severe state of intoxication or physical deterioration.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Wasted

    of Waste

Wikidata

  1. Wasted

    Wasted is an L.A. Guns EP featuring singer Ralph Saenz, who has since become the vocalist for Steel Panther.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of wasted in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of wasted in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of wasted in a Sentence

  1. Anthony Burgess:

    Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.

  2. 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.

  3. Harry S Truman:

    I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.

  4. Kevin McCarthy:

    He told me once that he would, I believe eventually he will, but that’s a month wasted. That’s a month that brings more doubt financially. That’s a month that hurts Americans.

  5. Natali Tene:

    This guy was wasted, for lack of a better term.

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