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Adjectives (26)

squandered, wasted

adj. not used to good advantage; "squandered money cannot be replaced"; "a wasted effort"

atrophied, wasted, diminished

adj. (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use; "partial paralysis resulted in an atrophied left arm"

otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted

adj. serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being; "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless"; "senseless violence"

desolate, wasted, blasted, desolated, devastated, ravaged, ruined

adj. "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape"

bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted

adj. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"

Fuzzynyms (22)

done for(p), kaput(p), gone(a)

adj. destroyed or killed; "we are gone geese"

misused

adj. used incorrectly or carelessly or for an improper purpose; "misused words are often laughable but one weeps for misused talents"

meaningless, nonmeaningful

adj. having no meaning or direction or purpose; "a meaningless endeavor"; "a meaningless life"; "a verbose but meaningless explanation"

nonsense(a), nonsensical

adj. having no intelligible meaning; "nonsense syllables"; "a nonsensical jumble of words"

desolate

adj. crushed by grief; "depressed and desolate of soul"; "a low desolate wail"

thin

adj. of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section; "thin wire"; "a thin chiffon blouse"; "a thin book"; "a thin layer of paint"

careworn, drawn, haggard, raddled, worn

adj. showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens

angular, angulate

adj. having angles or an angular shape

erose, jagged, jaggy, notched, toothed

adj. having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed

Synonyms (86)

vanished

adj. having passed out of existence; "vanished civilizations"

mislaid, misplaced

adj. lost temporarily; as especially put in an unaccustomed or forgotten place; "the mislaid hat turned up eventually"; "misplaced tickets"

missing

adj. not able to be found; "missing in action"; "a missing person"

straying

adj. unable to find your way; "found the straying sheep"

chaffy

adj. value; "an empty chaffy book by a foolish chaffy fellow"

good-for-nothing, good-for-naught, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good, sorry

adj. without merit; "a sorry horse"; "a sorry excuse"; "a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick"; "the car was a no-good piece of junk"

negligible, paltry, trifling

adj. not worth considering; "he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts"; "a trifling matter"

nugatory

adj. of no real value; "a nugatory law"

rubbishy, trashy

adj. cheap and inferior; of no value; "rubbishy newspapers that form almost the sole reading of the majority"; "trashy merchandise"

valueless

adj. of no value

annihilated, exterminated, wiped out(p)

adj. destroyed completely

blighted, spoilt

adj. affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity; "a blighted rose"; "blighted urban districts"

blotted out, obliterate, obliterated

adj. reduced to nothingness

demolished, dismantled, razed

adj. torn down and broken up

despoiled, pillaged, raped, ravaged, sacked

adj. having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence; "the raped countryside"

done for(p), kaput(p), gone(a)

adj. destroyed or killed; "we are gone geese"

extinguished

adj. of a conditioned response; caused to die out because of the absence or withdrawal of reinforcement

finished, ruined

adj. brought to ruin; "after the revolution the aristocracy was finished"; "the unsuccessful run for office left him ruined politically and economically"

wrecked

adj. destroyed in an accident; "a wrecked ship"; "a highway full of wrecked cars"

war-torn, war-worn

adj. laid waste by war

anorexic, anorectic

adj. suffering from anorexia nervosa; pathologically thin

bladed

adj. composed of thin flat plates resembling a knife blade; "bladed arsenopyrite"

compressed, flat

adj. flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)

deep-eyed, hollow-eyed, sunken-eyed

adj. characteristic of the bony face of a cadaver

slender, slight, slim, svelte

adj. being of delicate or slender build; "she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"- Frank Norris; "a slim girl with straight blonde hair"; "watched her slight figure cross the street"

gangling, gangly, lanky

adj. tall and thin

lank, spindly

adj. long and lean

rawboned

adj. having a lean and bony physique; "a rawboned cow hand"

twiggy, twiglike

adj. thin as a twig

scarecrowish

adj. resembling a scarecrow in being thin and ragged; "a forlorn scarecrowish figure"

skinny

adj. of or relating to or resembling skin

shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken

adj. reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity; "our shriveled receipts during the storm"; "as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled"; "the dollar's shrunken buying power"

slender-waisted, slim-waisted, wasp-waisted

adj. having a small waist

spare, trim

adj. thin and fit; "the spare figure of a marathon runner"; "a body kept trim by exercise"

spindle-legged, spindle-shanked

adj. having long slender legs

wiry

adj. of hair that resembles wire in stiffness; "wiry red hair"

wisplike, wispy

adj. thin and weak; "a wispy little fellow with small hands and feet"- Edmund Wilson

shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened

adj. lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair"

Antonyms (14)

hypertrophied, enlarged

adj. (of an organ or body part) excessively enlarged as a result of increased size in the constituent cells; "hypertrophied myocardial fibers"

valuable

adj. having great material or monetary value especially for use or exchange; "a valuable diamond"

invaluable, priceless

adj. having incalculable monetary, intellectual, or spiritual worth

all-important(a), all important(p), crucial, essential, of the essence(p)

adj. of the greatest importance; "the all-important subject of disarmament"; "crucial information"; "in chess cool nerves are of the essence"

useful, of value

adj. being of use or service; "the girl felt motherly and useful"; "a useful job"; "a useful member of society"

fat

adj. having an (over)abundance of flesh; "he hadn't remembered how fat she was"

rotund

adj. spherical in shape

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