If waste is useless, then to waste is to fritter away. Don't waste time putting your waste paper in the waste basket, just chuck it in the recycling bin.
Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
Noun
useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly; "if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste"; "mindless dissipation of natural resources"
Noun
(law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
Noun
the trait of wasting resources; "a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste"; "the wastefulness of missed opportunities"
Noun
an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"
Noun
any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted; "they collect the waste once a week"; "much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers"
Verb
waste away; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"
Verb
devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
Verb
cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him"
Verb
lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away"
Verb
spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not"
Verb
use inefficiently or inappropriately; "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience"
Verb
get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized"
Verb
run off as waste; "The water wastes back into the ocean"
Verb
get rid of; "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer"
Verb
spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"
Adjective S.
located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places"
Adjective S.
disposed of as useless; "waste paper"
a.
Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal;
gloomy; cheerless.
a.
Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse;
rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.
a.
Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.
a.
To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.
a.
To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by
constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
a.
To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally;
to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to
lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by
scattering or injury.
a.
To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or
by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.
v. i.
To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength,
value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow
less.
v. i.
To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; -- said of a
jockey in preparation for a race, etc.
v.
The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a
squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure;
devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by
use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc.
v.
That which is wasted or desolate; a devastated,
uncultivated, or wild country; a deserted region; an unoccupied or
unemployed space; a dreary void; a desert; a wilderness.
v.
That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse.
Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the
working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery,
absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc.
v.
Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods,
fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the
prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder.
v.
Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or
filled with refuse.
Waste
The dismal situation waste and wild.
His heart became appalled as he gazed forward into the waste darkness of futurity.2.
But his waste words returned to him in vain.
Not a waste or needless sound, Till we come to holier ground.
Ill day which made this beauty waste.3.
And strangled with her waste fertility.
Waste
Thou barren ground, whom winter's wrath hath wasted, Art made a mirror to behold my plight.
The Tiber Insults our walls, and wastes our fruitful grounds.2.
Until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness.
O, were I able To waste it all myself, and leave ye none!
Here condemned To waste eternal days in woe and pain.
Wasted by such a course of life, the infirmities of age daily grew on him.3.
The younger son gathered all together, and . . . wasted his substance with riotous living.
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.4.
Waste
The time wasteth night and day.
The barrel of meal shall not waste.
But man dieth, and wasteth away.2.
Waste
For all this waste of wealth loss of blood.
He will never . . . in the way of waste, attempt us again.
Little wastes in great establishments, constantly occurring, may defeat the energies of a mighty capital.2.
All the leafy nation sinks at last, And Vulcan rides in triumph o'er the waste.
The gloomy waste of waters which bears his name is his tomb and his monument.3.
Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.
To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less.
The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay;
Usage Examples
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.
But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.
Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
Customers don't know what they want. There's plenty of good psychology research that shows that people are not able to accurately predict how they would behave in the future. So asking them, 'Would you buy my product if it had these three features?' or 'How would you react if we changed our product this way?' is a waste of time. They don't know.
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Other Usage ExamplesChess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons?
All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time serenity, that nothing is.
Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have to stop waste, and if you travel for no reason whatsoever, that is a waste.
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