wasting

Other forms of wasting

plural

wastings·

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.

Questions about wasting

What does wasting mean?

wasting means "any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wasting?

wasting has 2 syllables: wa-sting. The stress falls on "wa". In IPA it is /ˈweɪstɪŋ/.

What is another word for wasting?

Close synonyms include cachexia, cachexy, atrophy, wasting away. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wasting a common word?

wasting is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.