Waste Synonyms and Antonyms

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Refuse
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. rubbish
  2. garbage
  3. scrap
Antonyms:
  1. possessions
To use without result
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. consume
  2. dissipate
  3. spend
  4. lose
  5. be of no avail
  6. come-to-nothing
  7. go to waste
  8. devour
  9. misuse
  10. throw away
  11. use up
  12. misapply
  13. misemploy
  14. labor in vain
  15. cast-pearls-before-swine
  16. send owls to Athens
  17. carry-coals-to-newcastle
  18. squander
Antonyms:
  1. save
  2. profit
  3. use well
  4. get results
  5. hoard
To pass (time) without working or in avoiding work
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. dawdle
  2. fiddle away
  3. idle
  4. kill
  5. trifle away
  6. while
  7. wile
To squander
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. blow
  2. squander
  3. consume
  4. dissipate
  5. fritter away
  6. fool away
  7. exhaust
  8. misspend
  9. ruin
  10. fritter
  11. burn up
  12. lavish
  13. scatter
  14. splurge
  15. spend
  16. be prodigal
  17. indulge
  18. abuse
  19. empty
  20. drain
  21. use up
  22. deplete
  23. atrophy
  24. fatigue
  25. barren
  26. bush
  27. spill
  28. chaff
  29. impoverish
  30. consumption
  31. dawdle
  32. debris
  33. decay
  34. decline
  35. demolish
  36. denudate
  37. depauperate
  38. depredate
  39. riot away
  40. deracinate
  41. desert
  42. desolate
  43. despoil
  44. be spendthrift
  45. destroy
  46. destruction
  47. divert
  48. devastate
  49. devastation
  50. go through
  51. devour
  52. gamble away
  53. dregs
  54. dwindle
  55. throw money into a well
  56. emaciate
  57. enfeeble
  58. excrement
  59. run-through
  60. throw away
  61. extravagance
  62. hang the expense
  63. fail
  64. scatter to the winds
  65. garbage
  66. idle
  67. junk
  68. burn the candle at both ends
  69. kill
  70. trifle away
  71. litter
  72. lose
  73. molder
  74. murder
  75. needless
  76. offal
  77. pillage
  78. pine
  79. prodigality
  80. ravage
  81. refuse
  82. rubbish
  83. sack
  84. sewage
  85. sludge
  86. soot
  87. strip
  88. trash
  89. tundra
  90. uncultivated
  91. weaken
  92. wither
  93. ware
Antonyms:
  1. save
  2. be thrifty
  3. conserve
  4. manage wisely
To lose strength or power.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. languish
  2. Also used with away: decline
  3. degenerate
  4. deteriorate
  5. fade
  6. fail
  7. flag
  8. pine away
  9. sink
  10. wane
  11. weaken
To fail to take advantage of
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. lose
  2. miss
To do away with completely and destructively
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. consume
  2. devour
  3. eat
  4. swallow
To take the life of (a person or persons) unlawfully
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. destroy
  2. finish
  3. kill
  4. liquidate
  5. murder
  6. slay
  7. put away
  8. bump off
  9. do in
  10. knock off
  11. off
  12. rub out
  13. wipe out
  14. zap
Run off as waste
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. run-off
(law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. permissive waste

Words Related to Waste

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. excess
  2. rich
  3. industrious
  4. increase
  5. used
  6. careful
  7. help
  8. hazardous waste landfill
  9. strong
  10. waste-disposal
  11. hazardous waste
  12. re-cycling
  13. landfill
  14. waste-x94
  15. HHW
  16. recycling
  17. biosolids
  18. recyling
  19. non-recyclable
  20. radioactive-waste
  21. toxic-waste
  22. non-inert

Waste Sentence Examples

  • Gabe didn't waste time.

  • I can't afford to waste the buck.

  • The reactor area, the storage and logistical areas, and the hazardous waste areas appeared untouched.

  • Reluctantly, he agreed to waste his Sunday with Vinnie and learned from Sackler that a uniformed officer had delivered Vinnie's clothes earlier.

  • He wouldn't be caught dead with a bouquet of wildflowers and there was no way he was going to waste money on flowers that would wither and die within a week.

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