waste

The word “waste” has 1 syllable: waste

It's pronounced as /weɪst/

What is synonym and antonym for waste?

In the thesaurus, “waste” has 412 synonyms and 128 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for waste along with examples of usage in sentences.

Synonyms for waste

amplitude
annihilate
arid
assassinate
atrophy
attrition
badland
badlands
baked
bankrupted
barren
be of no avail
beat
best
blast
bleak
blot out
blow
blow up
bog
boney
bony
breadth
break
break down
breakdown
brush
brushland
burn up
bush
butcher
castoff
chaff
clobber
compass
conquer
consume
consumed
coprolite
corrode
corrosion
cream
cripple
crud
crumble
crush
cull
cut down
damage
dead
deadwood
debilitate
debilitated
debris
decay
decimate
decline
decomposition
decrease
deface
defeat
dehydrated
demolish
deplete
depleted
depredate
depress
depth
desecrate
desert
desolate
desolation
despoil
destroy
destruction
deteriorate
detritus
devastate
devastation
devitalize
devour
dilapidate
dilapidation
diminished
dirt
disable
disappear
disassemble
disburse
discard
disfigure
disintegrate
disintegration
dismantle
dispatch
dissipate
dissipation
dissolution
dissolve
distance
disuse
divert
do in
domain
doo-doo
drain
drained
dreck
dregs
drek
dried-up
droop
dropping
dross
droughty
drub
dry
dump
dung
dunghill
dust
dust bowl
dynamite
eat away
ebb
efface
effluvia
effluvium
emaciate
emptiness
empty
enervate
enfeeble
enfeebled
eradicate
erode
erosion
etiolate
excess
excrement
excreta
execute
exhaust
exhausted
exhaustion
expanse
expansion
expend
expended
expenditure
expunge
extension
extent
exterminate
extinguish
extirpate
extravagance
fade
feces
fell
fen
fiddle away
field
flotsam
fritter
fritter away
frivol away
gamble away
gamut
garbage
gnaw
go to waste
guano
gut
hamstring
hand-me-down
hardscrabble
harm
havoc
heath
hogwash
hurt
immensity
immoderacy
impair
impoverish
impoverished
improvidence
incapacitate
indulge
indulgence
infertile
inhospitable
injure
invalid
jetsam
jungle
junk
kill
kill off
latitude
lavish
lavishness
lay out
lay up
lay waste
leavings
leftovers
length
lessened
lick
lifeless
liquidate
litter
loot
lose
loss
lost opportunity
lumber
luxury
magnitude
make ducks and drakes of
mangle
manure
mar
marsh
marshland
massacre
master
midden
misapplication
misapply
misemploy
misspend
misuse
moor
muck
murder
mutilate
nature
night soil
nothing
nuke
obliterate
odds and ends
offal
offscouring
offscourings
open
open air
ordure
out-of-doors
outdoors
overbear
overcome
overdoing
overindulge
overindulgence
overkill
overmatch
overspend
paralyze
parched
perish
pillage
plain
play ducks and drakes with
plunder
poop
poor
pour down the drain
prodigality
profligacy
profusion
prostrate
pull down
pulverize
quagmire
raffle
rainless
range
rape
ravage
raze
reach
reduce
reduced
refuse
reject
remains
remove
riffraff
rout
rub out
rubbish
rubble
ruin
ruins
rummage
run dry
run through
sack
sap
scale
scat
scope
scotch
scour
scrap
scrap heap
sear
self-indulgence
sere
sewage
sewerage
shatter
sheet
shoot
sink
skunk
slaughter
slay
slop
slops
smash
soften
soil
solitude
span
spectrum
spend
spent
sphere
spilth
splurge
spoil
spoliate
spoor
spread
squander
squandering
stark
stool
straw
stretch
subdue
sunbaked
surmount
swamp
sweep
sweepings
swill
take down
take out
tear down
territory
thin
thirsty
thrash
throw away
throwaway
tire
total
trample
trash
trifle away
trim
trounce
truck
trumpery
tundra
two bits
unbuild
uncultivable
undermine
undermining
undo
unfertile
unmake
unman
unproductive
unthriftiness
untillable
used up
vandalize
vaporize
vitiate
void
wallop
wane
wash
wash out
wastage
wastefulness
wasteland
waterless
weaken
wear
wear down
wear out
whip
wild
wilderness
wilds
wilt
wipe out
wither
wrack
wreak havoc
wreck
wreckage
zap

Antonyms for waste

accumulate
aid
arable
assemble
assist
austerity
belt-tightening
bloom
booty
bring about
build
building
buildup
catch
collect
conservation
conserve
constitute
construct
construction
create
creation
develop
development
doctor
economize
economizing
economy
energize
erect
establish
fabricate
fashion
father
fertile
fill
find
fix
forge
form
fortify
found
frame
frugality
fruitful
gain
gather
gem
goodie
goody
green
grow
growth
harden
help
hoard
hoarding
improve
improvement
increase
institute
invent
invigorate
jewel
lay up
lush
luxuriant
maintain
make
manufacture
mend
moderation
mold
necessity
organize
parsimony
patch
pearl
penny-pinching
plum
possessions
preserve
prize
produce
productive
protect
put up
raise
rear
rebuild
recondition
reconstruct
recruit
rejuvenate
remodel
renovate
repair
restore
restraint
revamp
rich
rise
salvage
save
saving
scrimp
scrimping
season
sense
set up
shape
skimp
skimping
starve
strengthen
succeed
sylvan
temperance
temperateness
thrift
tillable
toughen
treasure
treasure trove
trove
valuable
verdant
vitalize

Meanings of waste

noun
1. Excess of material, useless by-products or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
2. Excrement or urine.
3. A waste land; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
4. A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
5. A large tract of uncultivated land.
6. The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.
7. A vast expanse of water.
8. A disused mine or part of one.
9. The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
10. Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
11. Gradual loss or decay.
12. A decaying of the body by disease; wasting away.
13. Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; See "to lay waste".
14. A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect.
15. Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
adjective
1. Uncultivated, uninhabited.
2. Barren; desert.
3. Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.
4. Superfluous; needless.
5. Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
6. Unfortunate; disappointing.
verb
1. To devastate, destroy.
2. To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.
3. To kill; to murder.
4. To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
5. Gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
6. To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
7. To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.

Example Sentences

Please do not waste water when brushing your teeth.
Leaving the lights on all night is a waste of electricity.
He didn't want to waste his time on meaningless arguments.
The company is working to reduce waste in packaging.
Throwing away perfectly good food is such a waste.

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