Waisted vs. Wasted — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Waisted and Wasted
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Definitions
Waisted
Having a waist or a part like a waist.
Wasted
Not profitably used or maintained
A wasted inheritance.
Waisted
Having a waist of a specified kind
High-waisted.
Slim-waisted.
Wasted
Needless or superfluous
These are wasted words.
Waisted
(in combination) Having some specific type of waist.
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Wasted
Deteriorated; ravaged
A wasted landscape.
Waisted
Narrower in the middle.
Wasted
Frail and enfeebled, as from prolonged illness; emaciated.
Wasted
(Slang) Drunk or intoxicated.
Wasted
(Archaic) Having elapsed.
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Wasted
Not profitably used.
Wasted
Ravaged or deteriorated.
Wasted
Emaciated and haggard.
Wasted
(slang) Very drunk or stoned.
Wasted
(medicine) Low weight-for-height (for a person).
Wasted
Simple past tense and past participle of waste
Wasted
Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being;
Otiose lines in a play
Advice is wasted words
Wasted
Not used to good advantage;
Squandered money cannot be replaced
A wasted effort
Wasted
(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
Wasted
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
Wasted
Made uninhabitable;
Upon this blasted heath
A wasted landscape
