wasting

The word “wasting” has 2 syllables: wast-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈweɪstɪŋ/

What is synonym and antonym for wasting?

In the thesaurus, “wasting” has 344 synonyms and 133 antonyms.

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

Synonyms for wasting

abating
acerb
acerbic
acrid
adulteration
altruistic
annihilating
annihilation
anorexia
assassinating
atrophy
attenuation
beating
below par
beneficent
benevolent
besting
biting
blasting
blight
blitz
blood
blood and guts
blood bath
bloodshed
blotting out
blowing
blowing up
boniness
bounteous
bountiful
breakdown
breaking
breaking down
burglary
butchering
butchery
caries
caustic
charitable
clobbering
compassionate
conquering
consuming
consumption
corroding
corrosion
creaming
crime
crippling
crumbling
crushing
cutting
cutting down
damaging
debilitated
debilitating
decadence
decimating
decline
declining
decomposition
decrease
decrepitude
defacing
defeating
degeneracy
degeneration
demolishing
depleting
depreciating
depreciation
depressing
desecration
desolating
desolation
despoiling
destroying
destructive
deteriorating
deterioration
devastating
devitalizing
dilapidating
dilapidation
diminishing
disabling
disassembling
disbursing
diseased
disfiguring
disintegrating
disintegration
dismantling
dispatching
disrepair
dissipating
dissolution
dissolving
doing in
down
down with
downfall
dropping
drubbing
dwindling
dying
dying down
dynamiting
ebbing
effacing
enervating
enfeebled
enfeebling
eradicating
eroding
erosive
etiolating
executing
exhausting
expending
expunging
exterminating
extermination
extinction
extinguishing
extirpating
extravagant
fading
fading away
failing
feeble
feeling awful
felling
fiddling away
free
freehanded
frittering
gangrene
generous
good-hearted
gore
greathearted
gutting
haggardness
hamstringing
handsome
harming
havoc
havocking
hecatomb
holocaust
homicide
hospitable
humanitarian
hurting
ill
impairing
impairment
impoverishing
incapacitating
incisive
indisposed
indulging
injuring
invaliding
killing
killing off
kindly
lavish
lavishing
laying out
laying up
laying waste
liberal
licking
lightening
liquidating
looting
losing
losing momentum
lowering
magnanimous
making ducks and drakes of
malnutrition
mangling
manslaughter
marasmus
marauding
marring
mass murder
massacring
mastering
misspending
moderating
mortification
munificent
murder
murdering
mutilating
narrowing
nuking
obliterating
offing
openhanded
openhearted
overbearing
overcoming
overgenerous
overindulging
overmatching
overspending
paralyzing
perishing
philanthropic
philanthropical
pillage
pillaging
playing ducks and drakes with
plummeting
plunder
plundering
plunging
prodigal
profligate
profuse
prostrating
pulling down
pulverizing
putrefaction
putrescence
putridity
putridness
quieting
ransacking
rapine
ravaging
razing
removing
robbery
rocky
rot
rottenness
rotting
routing
rubbing out
ruin
ruination
ruining
run down
running through
rust
sacking
sagging
sapping
sarcastic
scotching
scouring
search and destroy
selfless
senescence
shambles
shattering
shooting
shrinking
shriveling up
sick
sick as a dog
sickly
sinking
skinniness
skunking
slackening
slaughter
slaughtering
slaying
slowing
slumping
smashing
softening
spending
spendthrift
splurging
spoilage
spoilation
spoiling
spoliation
squandering
starvation
stealing
strongly acid
subduing
subsiding
surmounting
tabes
taking down
taking out
tearing down
theft
thinness
thrashing
thriftless
throwing away
tiring
totaling
totalling
trampling
trashing
trenchant
trimming
trouncing
unbuilding
under the weather
undernourishment
undoing
unmaking
unmanning
unselfish
unsparing
unstinting
unthrifty
unwell
vandalizing
vaporizing
venomous
virulent
vitiating
walloping
waning
warfare
washing out
wasteful
wasting away
weak
weakening
wearing down
wearing off
wearing out
whipping
wiping out
withering
wracking
wrecking
zapping

Antonyms for wasting

able
acquisitive
ascent
assembling
avaricious
avid
betterment
boon
bringing about
building
careful
chary
cheap
chintzy
close
closefisted
combination
conserving
constituting
constructing
construction
contributing
coveting
covetous
creating
desirous
development
doctoring
economical
economizing
energizing
erecting
establishing
fabricating
fashioning
fathering
fit
fixing
flourish
forging
forming
fortifying
founding
framing
frugal
gentle
germination
goodness
grasping
greedy
growth
happy
hardening
healthy
hearty
hoarding
hoggish
improvement
increase
instituting
inventing
invigorating
itchy
kind
laying up
making
manufacturing
mean
mending
mercenary
mingy
miracle
miserly
molding
morality
nice
niggard
niggardly
organizing
parsimonious
patching
peace
penny-pinching
penurious
pinching
pinchpenny
preserving
producing
protecting
putting up
raising
rapacious
rearing
rebuilding
reconditioning
reconstructing
recruiting
rejuvenating
remodeling
renovating
repairing
restoring
revamping
ripening
rise
saving
scrimping
seasoning
selfish
setting up
shabby
shaping
skimping
small
sordid
sound
spare
sparing
stingy
stinting
strength
strengthening
strong
supporting
thrifty
tight
tightfisted
toughening
uncharitable
ungenerous
vitalizing
well
wonder

Meanings of wasting

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.
noun
1. Gradual deterioration or wasting away.
2. The act by which something is laid waste; destruction.
adjective
1. Causing a waste, or wasting away; causing pronounced loss of body mass.

Example Sentences

He is wasting his talent by not practicing regularly.
Stop wasting food and only take what you can eat.
She felt like she was wasting her time on that pointless task.
The leaking faucet was wasting gallons of water every day.
They warned him that he was wasting a great opportunity.

On this page you'll find 477 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to wasting, such as: abating, able, acerb, acerbic, acquisitive, acrid, adulteration.

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