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.

   Synonyms: down the toilet, misspent, squandered

2. Ravaged or deteriorated.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:deteriorated

3. Emaciated and haggard.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:weak, Thesaurus:scrawny

4. (slang) Very drunk or stoned.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:drunk, Thesaurus:stoned

   • 1969, Steve Winwood (lyrics and music), “Can't Find My Way Home”, performed by Blind Faith:

     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

   • 2016, Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea, spoken by Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck):

     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).

   Synonym: underweight

Translations

not profitably used

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

  Bokmål: bortkastet

  Nynorsk: bortkasta

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• Portuguese: desperdiçado
• Spanish: desperdiciado (es)
• Swedish: please add this translation if you can

ravaged or deteriorated

• Finnish: hävitetty (fi)
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• Portuguese: devastado

emaciated and haggard

• Finnish: riutunut (fi)
• Maori: hauaitu, hauhauaitu
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• Portuguese: mirrado (pt)

very drunk or stoned

• Finnish: kännissä (fi), umpikännissä, pilvessä (fi) (stoned)
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• Portuguese: chumbado (pt), chapado (pt), quinado (pt) m, pedrado m, cego (pt) m, mocado m
• Swedish: please add this translation if you can

with low weight-for-height

• Portuguese: tísico (pt)
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See also

• (medicine): stunted

Verb

wasted

1. simple past and past participle of waste

Anagrams

• stawed, tawsed, wadest, wadset