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Wasted vs Wasteful - What's the difference?

wasted | wasteful |

As adjectives the difference between wasted and wasteful

is that wasted is not profitably used while wasteful is inclined to waste or squander money or resources.

As a verb wasted

is past tense of waste.

wasted

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not profitably used.
  • Ravaged or deteriorated.
  • Emaciated and haggard.
  • (slang) very drunk or stoned.
  • (medicine) low weight-for-height (for a person).

    • Related terms

    * (medicine) stunted

    Verb

    (head)
  • (waste)

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    wasteful

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Inclined to waste or squander money or resources.
  • (obsolete) Uninhabited, desolate.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.6:
    • Shortly unto the wastefull woods she came, / Whereas she found the Goddesse with her crew [...].

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