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Adjectives (24)
squandered
adj. not used to good advantage; "squandered money cannot be replaced"; "a wasted effort"
atrophied, 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"
haggard, drawn, careworn, 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
otiose, useless, pointless, superfluous
adj. serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being; "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"
desolate, blasted, desolated, devastated, ravaged, ruined
adj. "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape"
bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal
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 (41)
gone, kaput, lost, finished, done for
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"
down, downcast, low, depressed, dispirited, downhearted, low-spirited
adj. low in spirits; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"
bony, wasted, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal
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"
meaningless
adj. having no meaning or direction or purpose; "a meaningless endeavor"; "a meaningless life"; "a verbose but meaningless explanation"
nonsense, nonsensical
adj. having no intelligible meaning; "nonsense syllables"; "a nonsensical jumble of words"
barren, bare, desolate, bleak
adj. providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"
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"
wasted, haggard, drawn, careworn, 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
jagged, jaggy, toothed, erose, notched
adj. having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed
Synonyms (137)
forgotten, 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"
gone, missing
adj. not able to be found; "missing in action"; "a missing person"
straying
adj. unable to find your way; "found the straying sheep"
beat, dead, knocked out, bushed, dead tired, all in
adj. very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip"
weary, aweary
adj. physically and mentally fatigued; "`aweary' is archaic"
blear, bleary, bleary-eyed, blear-eyed
adj. tired to the point of exhaustion
blown, out of breath
adj. (tired)
bored, world-weary
adj. tired of the world; "bored with life"; "strolled through the museum with a bored air"
drooping, flagging
adj. weak from exhaustion
washed-out, burned-out, burnt-out, burned out, burnt out, exhausted, spent, worn-out, fagged, fatigued, played-out, played out, washed out, worn out
adj. drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted; "the day's shopping left her exhausted"; "he went to bed dog-tired"; "was fagged and sweaty"; "the trembling of his played out limbs"; "felt completely washed-out"; "only worn-out horses and cattle"; "you look worn out"
footsore
adj. having sore or tired feet
jaded, wearied
adj. exhausted; "my father's words had left me jaded and depressed"- William Styron
travel-worn
adj. tired by travel
unrefreshed, unrested
adj. not rested or refreshed;
light, chaffy
adj. value; "an empty chaffy book by a foolish chaffy fellow"
good-for-nothing, good-for-naught, sorry, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good
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"
trifling, paltry, negligible, piddling, piffling
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"
trumpery, trashy, rubbishy
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
adj. destroyed completely
blighted, spoilt
adj. affected by blight--anything that mars or events growth or prosperity; "a blighted rose"; "blighted urban districts"
obliterate, obliterated, blotted out
adj. reduced to nothingness
demolished, dismantled, razed
adj. torn down and broken up
raped, ravaged, despoiled, pillaged, sacked
adj. having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence; "the raped countryside"
gone, kaput, lost, finished, done for
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
wiped out, ruined, impoverished
adj. destroyed financially; "the broken fortunes of the family"
totaled, wrecked, totalled
adj. used of automobiles; completely demolished; "the insurance adjuster declared the automobile totaled"
war-torn, war-worn
adj. laid waste by war
anorexic
adj. suffering from anorexia nervosa; pathologically thin
bladed
adj. composed of thin flat plates resembling a knife blade; "bladed arsenopyrite"
flat, compressed, flattened
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
slight, slim, delicate, slender
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"
reedy, twiggy
adj. resembling a reed in being upright and slender
scarecrowish
adj. resembling a scarecrow in being thin and ragged; "a forlorn scarecrowish figure"
scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy
adj. being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"
shrunken, shriveled, withered, shrivelled
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"
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
stringy, wiry
adj. lean and sinewy
slight, wispy, wisplike
adj. thin and weak; "a wispy little fellow with small hands and feet"- Edmund Wilson
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 (18)
enlarged, hypertrophied
adj. (of an organ or body part) excessively enlarged as a result of increased size in the constituent cells; "hypertrophied myocardial fibers"
fresh, invigorated, refreshed, reinvigorated
adj. with restored energy
valuable
adj. having great material or monetary value especially for use or exchange; "another human being equally valuable in the sight of God"; "a valuable diamond"
invaluable, priceless
adj. having incalculable monetary, intellectual, or spiritual worth
essential, crucial, all-important, all important, of the essence
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 much flesh (especially fat); "he hadn't remembered how fat she was"
rotund
adj. spherical in shape
wasted
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