Englishwasted
adjective
1 it was a wasted effort:
squandered, misspent, misdirected, misused, dissipated, frittered away;
pointless, useless, unnecessary, needless, not needed;
informal blown, splurged.
2 a wasted opportunity:
missed, lost, past, forfeited, neglected, squandered, bungled, gone, gone by the board;
informal down the drain.
3 I'm wasted in this job:
underemployed, underused, too good for;
abandoned, neglected, forgotten, disregarded, languishing.
4 his skinny wasted legs:
emaciated, atrophied, withered, shriveled, weak, weakened, frail, shrunken, skeletal, rickety, scrawny, cadaverous, wilted, faded, flagging, deteriorating, degenerative;
gaunt, haggard, wizened, undernourished, starved, half-starved.
5 informal everybody at the party was pretty wasted:
drunk, drunken, inebriated, intoxicated, befuddled, incapable, tipsy, the worse for drink, under the influence, maudlin;
blind drunk, dead drunk, rolling drunk, roaring drunk, (as) drunk as a lord, (as) drunk as a skunk;
sottish, tippling, toping, gin-soaked;
informal tight, merry, the worse for wear, woozy, pie-eyed, two/three sheets to the wind, under the table, plastered, smashed, wrecked, sloshed, well oiled, sozzled, soused, blotto, blitzed, canned, stewed, pickled, tanked (up), soaked, bombed, hammered, blasted, off one's face, out of/off one's head, out of one's skull, wired, in one's cups, reeling, cock-eyed, zonked, guttered, fuddled, stinko, ratted;
British, informal legless, steaming, bevvied, paralytic, Brahms and Liszt, half cut, out of it, having had a skinful, bladdered, trolleyed, well away, squiffy, tiddly, out of one's box, having had one over the eight, cut, steamed, mullered, slaughtered, lashed;
British, vulgar slang pissed, as pissed as a newt/fart, rat-arsed, arseholed;
Scottish, informal fou;
Scottish, & Australian, informal full;
North American, & Australian, New Zealand, informal shickered, shot;
US, informal turnt;
Australian, New Zealand, informal grogged up, as full as a goog, inked;
New Zealand, informal munted;
South African, informal lekker;
euphemistic tired and emotional;
informal , dated stoned, lit up, as tight as a tick;
British, informal , dated half seas over, pixilated;
archaic sotted, besotted, foxed, screwed;
rare crapulent, crapulous, inebriate, bibulous, ebrious, ebriose, ebriate.
▷antonyms sober.