wasted

adj 1: serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being;

"otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"

[syn: {otiose}, {pointless}, {superfluous}]

2: not used to good advantage; "squandered money cannot be

replaced"; "a wasted effort" [syn: {squandered}]

3: (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as

a result of disease or injury or lack of use; "partial

paralysis resulted in an atrophied left arm" [syn: {atrophied},

{diminished}] [ant: {hypertrophied}]

4: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold;

"emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt

men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous";

"small pinched faces"; kept life in his wasted frame only

by grim concentration" [syn: {bony}, {cadaverous}, {emaciated},

{gaunt}, {haggard}, {pinched}, {skeletal}]

5: made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare;

"a wasted landscape" [syn: {blasted}, {desolate}, {desolated},

{devastated}, {ravaged}, {ruined}]