wasted
adjective
1. serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
- advice is wasted words
Similar word(s): worthless, otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous
2. not used to good advantage
- a wasted effort
Similar word(s): lost, squandered
3. (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use
Similar word(s): atrophied, diminished
4. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
- kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration
Similar word(s): lean, thin, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal
verb
1. simple past tense and past participle of waste