Meaning & use
wasted
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used carelessly or without a satisfactory result, or, informally, extremely intoxicated.
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He felt the entire afternoon was wasted after the meeting was cancelled at the last minute.
By midnight, half the party had gotten wasted on cheap punch.
A note on using this word
The informal sense meaning 'very drunk or high' is casual slang and best avoided in formal writing.
Words with a similar meaning
squanderedintoxicated
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Words with an opposite meaning
soberutilized
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