Meaning & Definition of Wasted in English

1. 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. Not used to good advantage

• "Squandered money cannot be replaced"

• "A wasted effort"

3. (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. 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"