wasted
UKweistid
US'weıstəd
معنی فارسی
مست نشئه
معنی کامل و مثالها
/wās´tǝd/adj.
● (امریکا- خودمانی)
● مست
● نشئه
ریشه و کاربرد
ریشه
From Middle English 'wasten', from Old English 'wēastian'.
مثال
- He looked pale and wasted.
- She wasted her inheritance on frivolous things.
- A lot of time was wasted waiting for the bus.
ترکیبهای رایج
wasted opportunity wasted time wasted effort wasted resources
تعریف انگلیسی
adjective
- not used to good advantage “squandered money cannot be replaced” “a wasted effort”
- serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being “otiose lines in a play” “advice is wasted words” “a pointless remark” “a life essentially purposeless” “senseless violence”
- 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”
- (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”