Waste synonyms
Category:
Part of speech:
Refuse; trash.
The definition of dreary is something that is gloomy or depressing.
To impoverish or make bankrupt
An unsettled, uncultivated region, especially:
To use (something) incorrectly.
To waste or squander
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Ruined, ravaged
wrack and ruin
The state of being wasted
hang the expense
To squander
scatter to the winds
To squander
Something morally offensive; filth.
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To destroy by burning.
Any material rejected or thrown away as worthless; trash; refuse
Lacking vigor or purpose; inept or ineffective
To employ, or use, wrongly or badly; misuse
labor in vain
To use without result
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cast-pearls-before-swine
(Idiomatic) To give things of value to those who will not understand or appreciate it.
send owls to Athens
To use without result
To give or bestow in abundance; shower:
(Informal, old) To make a showy display or effort
To give or devote (time, labor, thought, or effort) to some enterprise or for some purpose
be prodigal
To squander
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To engage or take part, especially freely or avidly:
To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to misuse; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse one's authority. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
To make empty
To draw out in its entirety, or use up, money or a nonrenewable resource such as oil.
To be or become tired.
To allow or cause, esp. unintentionally or accidentally, to run, fall, or flow over from a container, usually so as to result in loss or waste
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To tire out; make very weary; weaken
be spendthrift
To squander
To turn (a person or thing) aside from a course, direction, etc. into another; deflect
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To wear out (clothing etc.).
gamble away
To squander
throw money into a well
To squander
To squander
To blow is to expel air in a more forceful manner or air movement.
To squander
To decay is defined as to rot, lose strength or deteriorate.
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become thin
To be consumed gradually
(Intransitive, figuratively) To fall away in quality; degenerate, sink.
(Intransitive) to become less heavy.
be diseased
To be consumed gradually
To be consumed gradually
To lose vitality or strength; become weakened; languish
The definition of disappear is to no longer be able to be seen.
To wear a sailing vessel
usable (antonym)
Capable of being used:
preserved (antonym)
valuable (antonym)
Of great merit, use, or service; highly important, esteemed, etc.
use (antonym)
A habitual practice, such as drug use.
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profit (antonym)
Profit is a benefit or gain, usually monetary.
value (antonym)
Value is the worth in goods, services or money of an object or person.
use well (antonym)
To use without result
get results (antonym)
To use without result
save (antonym)
To treat with care by avoiding fatigue, wear, or damage; spare:
be thrifty (antonym)
To squander
manage wisely (antonym)
To squander
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grow (antonym)
To increase in size and develop toward maturity, as a plant or animal does by assimilating food
excess (related)
An amount or quantity beyond what is normal or sufficient; a surplus:
trash (related)
A container into which things are discarded.
Characterized by good health and high spirits; full of life; uninhibited
inarable
Not arable.
In excess of what is required or sufficient.
tabescent
Wasting away, or becoming emaciated. [from 19th c.]
The definition of unnecessary is not needed.
Not productive; idle.
untilled
Of land, having not been tilled.
Not accustomed:
The definition of worthless is having no value.
Dead and decaying flesh.
Bits and pieces of rubbish; litter
(Mathematics) The amount by which a variable is decreased; a negative increment.
The definition of a desert is a dry, hot, sandy, usually barren and uninhabited area.
Wretchedness; misery.
A stripping or plundering; spoliation.
Destruction is defined as the tearing down or dismantling or killing of something.
Loose fragments, such as sand or gravel, that have been worn away from rock.
devastation rapine
The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
A waste product from working with metal
Effluent is defined as liquid waste products that are discharged.
egesta
Egested matter; feces, perspiration, etc.
Ejected matter, as from the body, a volcano, etc.
Waste material, especially fecal matter, that is expelled from the body after digestion.
Great destruction and devastation, as that resulting from hurricanes, wars, etc.
Offal is defined as waste or garbage.
offscourings
Plural form of offscouring
Pillage is the act of taking or stealing something by force.
recrement
(Biology) A bodily secretion that is reabsorbed into the blood
(Countable) Firing or termination of an employee.
scoria
Loose, cinderlike lava
Slag is waste matter separated from metal during smelting.
The act by which something is squandered; wastage.
A wilderness or wasteland
To waste away or fail to develop
To expend; use up:
To spend (time) without haste or purpose.
(By extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
depauperate
To stunt the growth of.
To displace from one's native or accustomed environment.
To violently strip (someone), with indirect object of their possessions etc.; to rob.
To put to death; kill:
To lay waste; destroy.
To destroy, consume, or waste:
To make or become extremely thin, especially as a result of starvation.
To deprive of strength; make feeble.
(Educ.) To get a grade of failure; not pass
To waste (money, time, etc.) bit by bit on petty things
To operate without transmitting power
To throw away.
Kill is defined as to cause to die or to destroy.
To supply with a bed, covering, etc. of straw, hay, or the like
To get rid of (something undesirable)
To crumble to dust; disintegrate.
To kill (a person) unlawfully and with malice
Pine is defined as to want something strongly, or to waste away from sadness.
To sack is a slang term that is defined as to fire someone from their job.
To agglutinate or aggregate into a semisolid mass; form a sludge. Used of blood cells.
(Bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also, strip-squeeze.)
A cold, treeless, usually lowland area of far northern regions. The lower strata of soil of tundras are permanently frozen, but in summer the top layer of soil thaws and can support low-growing mosses, lichens, grasses, and small shrubs.
To cause to lose force or vitality; diminish or destroy:
development (antonym)
(Uncountable, biology) The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells.
possessions (antonym)
Plural form of possession
hoarding (antonym)
A temporary wooden fence around a building or structure under construction or repair.
saving (antonym)
(--- Usage Problem) An amount of money saved:
build (antonym)
To develop or give form to according to a plan or process; create:
create (antonym)
To create is to make something.
preserve (antonym)
To save from decay by the use of some preservative substance, such as as sugar or salt; to season and prepare (fruits, meat, etc.) for storage.
hoard (antonym)
To hoard is defined as to collect or amass large amounts of goods and money which will typically then be stored away and kept in reserve.
A heavily eroded arid region of southwest South Dakota and northwest Nebraska. It is known for its colorful rock formations and prehistoric fossils.
riot away
To spend (money) excessively and usually foolishly
To spend (money) excessively and usually foolishly
fiddle away
(Intransitive) To play the fiddle idly.
To spend (time) in a pleasant way; cause to pass idly
To pass (time) agreeably:
Also used with away: decline
To lose strength or power.
To decline or become debased morally, culturally, etc.
Deteriorate is defined as to make or become worse or lower in value or quality.
To signal with or as if with a flag.
The definition of languish is to fail to advance or move forward, or to grow weak.
(Slang, archaic) To reduce or extinguish by payment.
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To lose strength or power.
To feel the lack or loss of:
To eat is defined as to put food in the mouth, chew and swallow or to use up.
To move the muscles of the throat as in swallowing something; specif., to do so under stress of emotion
(Idiomatic) To act convincingly; to succeed at giving the impression of (e.g.) knowledge, confidence, or familiarity.
To finish quickly or promptly
To bring to an end; complete
Slay is defined as to kill or destroy in a violent way, or is slang meaning to impress or amuse.
To eliminate, especially by killing.
To go away; leave:
Something extravagant.
The state or characteristic of being lavish.
A pouring forth with great liberality or wastefulness
Imprudent or excessive expenditure or the waste of resources
go-downhill
hit-the-skids
let-slip
let slip through one's fingers
lose out on
put-an-end-to
help (related)
(Intransitive) To provide assistance.
careful (related)
Excessive or imprudent expenditure
rich (related)
A diminutive of the male given name Richard.
hazardous waste landfill (related)
An unusable or unwanted substance or material, such as a waste product.
permissive waste
(Law) The legally compensable destruction of the value of property through the failure of a life tenant to maintain the property to the point where it falls into disrepair.
thriftlessness
Property of being thriftless
any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
The unwanted results of metabolism, expelled in the urine and faeces
Rot is defined as to decay or decompose.
cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
To cause to waste away or grow thin
pine away
lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
To cause an acidic solution to become neutral by adding a base to it or to cause a basic solution to become neutral by adding an acid to it. Salt and water are usually formed in the process.
To make inactive or ineffective.
waste-disposal (related)
hazardous waste (related)
re-cycling (related)
landfill (related)
waste-x94 (related)
HHW (related)
recycling (related)
biosolids (related)
recyling (related)
non-recyclable (related)
radioactive-waste (related)
toxic-waste (related)
non-inert (related)
recyclates (related)
source-separated (related)
Having no value; worthless.
Having no residents; not inhabited.
Not yielding profit
functionless
Lacking a function
Not purposeful; aimless
Lacking meaning; senseless:
Not working (machinery, etc)
The quality of being useless
(Law) The act of dilapidating, damaging a building or structure through neglect or by intention.
The amount of something lost:
(Dated, chemistry) The removal (by percolation etc) of an active medicinal constituent from plant material.
Loss and damage resulting from use
dustbowl
The 1930s period.
An area of low-lying wetland in which the level of water is generally shallow and often fluctuating. The water may be either standing or slow-moving. The water in a marsh is also more or less neutral or alkaline, in contrast to the water in a bog, which is acidic. The environment of a marsh is in general well-oxygenated and nutrient-rich and allows a great variety of organisms to flourish. In contrast to a swamp, in which there is an abundance of woody plants, the plants in a marsh are mostly herbaceous. Reeds and rushes dominate the vegetation of marshes.
An area or region characterized by marshes or swamps
The definition of a bog is small marsh with wet ground made up of decaying plants, usually moss.
An area of low wet land having peaty soil and typically being less acidic than a bog.
A tract of open, rolling wasteland, usually covered with heather and often marshy or peaty; heath
A preparation or product used in washing or coating.
be of no avail
To use without result
go to waste
To use without result
To use or apply wrongly.
To separate and go off in several directions
run to seed
To be consumed gradually
enrich (antonym)
To add vitamins, minerals, etc. to (bread, flour, etc.) so as to increase the nutritional value
industrious (related)
To pass (time) without working or in avoiding work
increase (related)
To cause to become greater in size, amount, degree, etc.; add to; augment
strong (related)
In a strong manner; greatly, severely, vigorously, etc.
To no purpose; ineffectual; of no avail
Synonym Study
- Wilderness refers to an uninhabited waste where a lack of paths or trails makes it difficult to find one's way, esp. to such a region thickly covered with trees and underbrush
- Badlands is applied to a barren, hilly waste where rapid erosion has cut the soft rocks into fantastic shapes
- A desert is a barren, arid, usually sandy tract of land
- Waste , in this connection, is the general word for any stretch of uncultivable, hence uninhabitable, land
Find another word for waste. In this page you can discover 294 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for waste, like: garbage, dreary, throw away, ruin, wilderness, misuse, dissipate, devastated, demolish, wrack and ruin and drain.