Word family noun wastage waste wastefulness waster wastrel adjective waste wasteful wasted wasting verb waste adverb wastefully
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishwastedwast‧ed /ˈweɪstɪd/ adjective 1 → wasted journey/trip/effort etc2 WEAKvery thin and weak because of illness, old age etc her thin, wasted body3 informalMDD very drunk or affected by drugsExamples from the Corpus
wasted• They clasped hers weakly and a smile flitted over the wasted features.• Pembrooke had a wasted journey to Downpatrick yesterday.• The government could have dealt with the problem there and then. It was a wasted opportunity.• I felt as if my education had been wasted when I couldn't get a job.• She thought back over the past four years - four wasted years married to a man who almost destroyed her. 