wasted

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: wāstʹĭd, IPA^(key): /ˈweɪstɪd/
• Homophone: waisted

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Adjective

wasted (comparative more wasted, superlative most wasted)

1. Not profitably used.
2. Ravaged or deteriorated.
3. Emaciated and haggard.
4. (slang) very drunk or stoned.
   • 2016, Casey Affleck as Lee Chandler, Manchester by the Sea, written by Kenneth Lonergan:

     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.

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

Synonyms

• (not profitably used): down the toilet, misspent, squandered
• (deteriorated): See Thesaurus:deteriorated
• (emaciated): See Thesaurus:weak or Thesaurus:scrawny
• (very drunk or stoned): See Thesaurus:drunk or Thesaurus:stoned
• (low weight-for-height): underweight

Translations

not profitably used

• Danish: bortkastet
• Finnish: haaskattu (fi), hukkaanheitetty
• German: vertan (de)
• Italian: sprecato (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bortkastet

  Nynorsk: bortkasta

• Portuguese: desperdiçado
• Spanish: desperdiciado (es)

ravaged or deteriorated

• Finnish: hävitetty (fi)

• Portuguese: devastado

emaciated and haggard

• Finnish: riutunut (fi)
• Maori: hauaitu, hauhauaitu

• Portuguese: mirrado (pt)

very drunk or stoned

• Finnish: kännissä (fi), pilvessä (fi)

• Portuguese: chumbado (pt), chapado (pt)

with low weight-for-height

• Portuguese: tísico (pt)

See also

• (medicine): stunted

Verb

wasted

1. simple past tense and past participle of waste

Anagrams

• stawed, tawsed, wadest, wadset