wasted

The word “wasted” has 2 syllables: wast-ed

It's pronounced as /ˈweɪ.stɪd/


What is synonym and antonym for wasted?

In the thesaurus, “wasted” has 310 synonyms and 124 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for wasted

  • addicted
  • alcoholic
  • annihilated
  • assassinated
  • asthenic
  • atrophied
  • attenuated
  • baked
  • beat
  • beery
  • befuddled
  • besotted
  • bested
  • bibulous
  • blasted
  • bleary-eyed
  • blew
  • blew up
  • blind
  • blitzed
  • blotted out
  • blotto
  • bombed
  • boney
  • bony
  • boozed up
  • boozy
  • breakable
  • broke
  • broke down
  • broken-down
  • butchered
  • buzzed
  • cadaverous
  • canned
  • challenged
  • clobbered
  • cockeyed
  • conquered
  • consumed
  • crapulous
  • creamed
  • crippled
  • crocked
  • crushed
  • cut down
  • damaged
  • debauched
  • debilitated
  • decimated
  • decrepit
  • defaced
  • defeated
  • delicate
  • demolished
  • depleted
  • depressed
  • desolated
  • despoiled
  • destroyed
  • deteriorated
  • devastated
  • devitalized
  • did in
  • dilapidated
  • dipsomaniacal
  • disabled
  • disassembled
  • disbursed
  • disfigured
  • disintegrated
  • dismantled
  • dispatched
  • dissipated
  • dissolute
  • dissolved
  • dizzy
  • doped
  • dopey
  • dopy
  • down-and-out
  • drained
  • drubbed
  • drugged
  • drunk
  • drunken
  • dynamited
  • effaced
  • effete
  • emaciated
  • enervated
  • enfeebled
  • eradicated
  • eroded
  • etiolated
  • executed
  • exhausted
  • expended
  • expunged
  • exterminated
  • extinguished
  • extirpated
  • faint
  • famished
  • feeble
  • feeling no pain
  • felled
  • fiddled away
  • flagging
  • flimsy
  • flying
  • fragile
  • frail
  • fried
  • gassed
  • gaunt
  • groggy
  • gutted
  • haggard
  • hammered
  • hamstrung
  • harmed
  • havocked
  • high
  • hooked
  • hopped-up
  • hungry
  • hurt
  • impaired
  • impotent
  • impoverished
  • in the bag
  • incapacitated
  • indulged
  • inebriate
  • inebriated
  • infirm
  • injured
  • intoxicated
  • invalid
  • invalided
  • juiced
  • killed
  • killed off
  • laid out
  • laid up
  • lame
  • languid
  • lank
  • lanky
  • lavished
  • lean
  • licked
  • liquidated
  • lit
  • lit up
  • loaded
  • looped
  • looted
  • lost
  • low
  • made ducks and drakes of
  • mangled
  • marred
  • massacred
  • mastered
  • maudlin
  • misspent
  • murdered
  • mutilated
  • nuked
  • obliterated
  • oiled
  • on a trip
  • overbore
  • overcame
  • overindulged
  • overmatched
  • overspent
  • paralyzed
  • pickled
  • pie-eyed
  • pillaged
  • plastered
  • played ducks and drakes with
  • plundered
  • potted
  • powerless
  • prostrate
  • prostrated
  • pulled down
  • pulverized
  • ran through
  • ravaged
  • rawboned
  • razed
  • removed
  • resistless
  • ripped
  • rocky
  • routed
  • rubbed out
  • ruined
  • sacked
  • sapped
  • scotched
  • scoured
  • scraggy
  • scrawny
  • shattered
  • shot
  • shriveled
  • shrivelled
  • sinewy
  • skeletal
  • skin and bones
  • skinny
  • skunked
  • slaughtered
  • slew
  • slight
  • sloshed
  • smashed
  • soft
  • softened
  • sottish
  • soused
  • sozzled
  • spaced
  • spaced out
  • spaced-out
  • spare
  • spent
  • splurged
  • spoiled
  • spoilt
  • squandered
  • squiffed
  • squiffy
  • starved
  • starving
  • stewed
  • stiff
  • stinking
  • stoned
  • strung out
  • strung-out
  • stupefied
  • subdued
  • surmounted
  • susceptible
  • tanked
  • tender
  • thin
  • thrashed
  • three sheets in the wind
  • three sheets to the wind
  • threw away
  • tiddly
  • tight
  • tipsy
  • tired
  • took down
  • took out
  • tore down
  • totaled
  • totalled
  • trampled
  • trashed
  • trimmed
  • tripping
  • trounced
  • unbuilt
  • under the influence
  • under the weather
  • underfed
  • undernourished
  • undid
  • unmade
  • unmanned
  • unresistant
  • unsound
  • unsteady
  • unsubstantial
  • vandalized
  • vaporized
  • vitiated
  • vulnerable
  • walloped
  • washed out
  • weak
  • weakened
  • weary
  • wet
  • whipped
  • wimpish
  • wimpy
  • wiped out
  • withered
  • wizened
  • woozy
  • wore down
  • wore out
  • worn-out
  • wracked
  • wrecked
  • yielding
  • zapped
  • zonked
  • zonked-out

Antonyms for wasted

  • able-bodied
  • abstemious
  • abstinent
  • assembled
  • athletic
  • beefy
  • brawny
  • brought about
  • built
  • burly
  • capable
  • chubby
  • clean
  • clearheaded
  • competent
  • conserved
  • constituted
  • constructed
  • convalescing
  • cool
  • corpulent
  • created
  • doctored
  • dry
  • economized
  • energetic
  • energized
  • erected
  • established
  • fabricated
  • fashioned
  • fat
  • fathered
  • fit
  • fixed
  • flabby
  • fleshy
  • forged
  • formed
  • fortified
  • founded
  • framed
  • full
  • hale
  • hard
  • hardened
  • hardy
  • healthy
  • hearty
  • heavyset
  • hoarded
  • husky
  • instituted
  • inured
  • invented
  • invigorated
  • laid up
  • level
  • lusty
  • made
  • manufactured
  • mended
  • mighty
  • molded
  • muscular
  • obese
  • organized
  • overweight
  • patched
  • plump
  • portly
  • powerful
  • preserved
  • produced
  • protected
  • pudgy
  • put up
  • raised
  • reared
  • rebuilt
  • reconditioned
  • reconstructed
  • recovering
  • recruited
  • recuperating
  • red-blooded
  • rejuvenated
  • remodeled
  • renovated
  • repaired
  • restored
  • revamped
  • robust
  • roly-poly
  • rotund
  • rugged
  • saved
  • scrimped
  • seasoned
  • set up
  • shaped
  • sinewy
  • skimped
  • sober
  • soft
  • sound
  • stalwart
  • steady
  • stocky
  • stout
  • straight
  • strapping
  • strengthened
  • strong
  • sturdy
  • teetotal
  • temperate
  • thickset
  • tough
  • toughened
  • tubby
  • vigorous
  • virile
  • vitalized

Meanings of wasted

  • 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.
  • adjective
    1. Not profitably used.
    2. Ravaged or deteriorated.
    3. Emaciated and haggard.
    4. Very drunk or stoned.
    5. Low weight-for-height (for a person).

Example Sentences

  • He wasted his entire afternoon playing video games.
  • She regretted how she wasted so much food at the party.
  • The broken machine wasted a lot of valuable resources.
  • They wasted no time in starting the project.
  • His talent was wasted in a job that didn’t challenge him.

On this page you'll find 434 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to wasted, such as: able-bodied, abstemious, abstinent, addicted, alcoholic, annihilated, assassinated.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

languid

  • ambling
  • apathetic
  • asthenic
  • blah
  • blahs
  • breakable
  • broken-down
  • careless
  • challenged
  • comatose
  • crawling
  • creeping
  • dallying
  • damaged
  • dawdling
  • debilitated
  • decelerating
  • decrepit
  • deliberate
  • delicate
  • dilatory
  • dillydallying
  • disabled
  • dizzy
  • dopey
  • down-and-out
  • dragging
  • drained
  • dull
  • easy
  • effete
  • energyless
  • enervated
  • enfeebled
  • exhausted
  • faint
  • feeble
  • filibustering
  • flagging
  • flimsy
  • fragile
  • frail
  • groggy
  • harmed
  • heavy
  • heavy-footed
  • heedless
  • hurt
  • impaired
  • impassive
  • impotent
  • inactive
  • incapacitated
  • inching
  • indifferent
  • indolent
  • inert
  • infirm
  • injured
  • invalid
  • knackered
  • lackadaisical
  • laggard
  • lagging
  • laid-back
  • lame
  • languishing
  • languorous
  • lazy
  • leaden
  • leisurely
  • lethargic
  • limp
  • lingering
  • listless
  • loafing
  • loggy
  • logy
  • loitering
  • lounging
  • low
  • measured
  • moony
  • nebbish
  • paralyzed
  • phlegmatic
  • pining
  • plodding
  • pokey
  • poking
  • poky
  • powerless
  • procrastinating
  • prostrate
  • prostrated
  • resistless
  • rocky
  • sapped
  • shuffling
  • sickly
  • sleepy
  • sleepyhead
  • slight
  • slothful
  • slow
  • slow-footed
  • slowing
  • sluggish
  • snail-paced
  • snaillike
  • snoozy
  • soft
  • softened
  • spiritless
  • stalling
  • stolid
  • strolling
  • supine
  • susceptible
  • tardy
  • tarrying
  • tender
  • thoughtless
  • tired
  • torpid
  • unconcerned
  • unenthusiastic
  • unhurried
  • uninterested
  • unresistant
  • unsound
  • unsteady
  • unsubstantial
  • unwary
  • vulnerable
  • wasted
  • weak
  • weakened
  • weary
  • wimpish
  • wimpy
  • woozy
  • worn-out
  • yielding

ran through

  • bayoneted
  • bayonetted
  • blew
  • blow
  • consume
  • consumed
  • cut
  • depleted
  • dirked
  • disbursed
  • dissipate
  • dissipated
  • exhaust
  • exhausted
  • expend
  • expended
  • fiddled away
  • finish
  • fritter away
  • gimleted
  • gored
  • harpooned
  • impaled
  • impoverished
  • indulged
  • jabbed
  • knifed
  • laid out
  • lanced
  • lavished
  • lose
  • lost
  • made ducks and drakes of
  • misspent
  • overindulged
  • overspent
  • pecked
  • perforated
  • picked
  • pierced
  • piked
  • pinked
  • pinpricked
  • played ducks and drakes with
  • poked
  • poniarded
  • pricked
  • pronged
  • punched
  • punctured
  • quilled
  • riddled
  • shot
  • skewered
  • sliced
  • speared
  • spend
  • spent
  • spiked
  • spindled
  • spitted
  • splurged
  • squander
  • squandered
  • stabbed
  • stuck
  • threw away
  • throw away
  • thrust
  • transfixed
  • transpierced
  • wash up
  • wasted

baked

  • air-dry
  • arid
  • bone-dry
  • charred
  • cremated
  • dehydrated
  • desert
  • desertic
  • desertlike
  • dried
  • droughty
  • drunk
  • dry
  • enflamed
  • fired
  • fried
  • heated
  • hyperarid
  • ignited
  • incinerated
  • inflamed
  • intoxicated
  • kindled
  • lighted
  • lit
  • looped
  • melted
  • parched
  • rainless
  • scalded
  • scathed
  • scorched
  • sear
  • seared
  • sere
  • simmered
  • singed
  • stewed
  • stoned
  • sunbaked
  • thirsty
  • ultradry
  • warmed
  • wasted
  • waterless
  • xerothermic

effaced

  • abolished
  • annihilated
  • atomized
  • blacked out
  • blasted
  • blew up
  • blotted out
  • canceled
  • cancelled
  • consumed
  • cut
  • dashed
  • decimated
  • demolished
  • destroyed
  • devastated
  • devoured
  • discarded
  • dismantled
  • dissolved
  • ditched
  • doomed
  • dynamited
  • ejected
  • eradicated
  • erased
  • excised
  • expelled
  • expunged
  • exterminated
  • extirpated
  • finished
  • flattened
  • fragmented
  • jettisoned
  • killed
  • killed off
  • liquidated
  • obliterated
  • ousted
  • powdered
  • pulverized
  • ravaged
  • razed
  • rubbed out
  • ruined
  • shattered
  • smashed
  • splintered
  • terminated
  • threw out
  • tore down
  • totaled
  • totalled
  • wasted
  • wiped out
  • wrecked
  • zapped

debilitated

  • asthenic
  • breakable
  • broke down
  • broken-down
  • challenged
  • crippled
  • damaged
  • decrepit
  • delicate
  • depleted
  • depressed
  • devitalized
  • disabled
  • dizzy
  • down-and-out
  • drained
  • effete
  • enervated
  • enfeebled
  • etiolated
  • exhausted
  • faint
  • feeble
  • flagging
  • flimsy
  • fragile
  • frail
  • groggy
  • hamstrung
  • harmed
  • hurt
  • impaired
  • impotent
  • impoverished
  • incapacitated
  • infirm
  • injured
  • invalid
  • invalided
  • laid up
  • lame
  • languid
  • low
  • paralyzed
  • powerless
  • prostrate
  • prostrated
  • resistless
  • rocky
  • sapped
  • slight
  • soft
  • softened
  • susceptible
  • tender
  • tired
  • unmanned
  • unresistant
  • unsound
  • unsteady
  • unsubstantial
  • vulnerable
  • washed out
  • wasted
  • weak
  • weakened
  • weary
  • wimpish
  • wimpy
  • woozy
  • wore down
  • wore out
  • worn-out
  • yielding

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