wasted

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: wāstʹĭd, IPA^(key): /ˈweɪstɪd/

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• Rhymes: -eɪstɪd
• Homophone: waisted

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) Exhausted.
   • 1982 February 13, Lee Swislow, “Amazon Trekking”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 29, page 9:

     A brief steep ascent and then a more gradual ascent through snow. Bets probably had taken my water container by then. Mack asks how I'm doing. I manage the words — pretty wasted. She offers to take the tent.

5. (slang) Very drunk or stoned.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:drunk, Thesaurus:stoned

   • 1969, Steve Winwood, “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.

6. (medicine) Low weight-for-height (for a person).

   Synonym: underweight

Derived terms

• white boy wasted
• white-girl wasted

Translations

not profitably used

Danish: bortkastet Finnish: haaskattu (fi), hukkaanheitetty German: vertan (de) Italian: sprecato (it) Norwegian: Bokmål: bortkastet Nynorsk: bortkasta Portuguese: desperdiçado (pt) Spanish: desperdiciado (es) Swedish: bortkastad (sv)

ravaged or deteriorated

Finnish: hävitetty (fi) Portuguese: devastado (pt)

emaciated and haggard

Finnish: riutunut (fi) Maori: hauaitu, hauhauaitu Portuguese: mirrado (pt) Swedish: tärd (sv), utmärglad (sv)

very drunk or stoned — see also drunk,‎ stoned

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

with low weight-for-height

Portuguese: tísico (pt)

See also

• (desolation or disuse): blasted, wasteland
• (medicine): stunted

Verb

wasted

1. simple past and past participle of waste

Anagrams

• stawed, tawsed, wadest, wadset