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say it: WAY-stid
wasted is an adjective meaning "serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being". It is pronounced /ˈweɪstɪd/ — WAY-stid. It carries 4 recorded senses.
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”
not used to good advantage
“squandered money cannot be replaced”
“a wasted effort”
(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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for wasted come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.