Waste

//weɪst//

Synonyms for "waste" (580 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (116)

barren consume desert garbage pine away refuse rubbish wasteland wilderness abate ablate ablation absorption acarpous afterglow afterimage arabia deserta arid assimilation atrophy

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Verb(10 words)

assassinate baptize blow cack cancel consume cripple damage dash desolate

Noun(3 words)

barren boo-boo boom-boom

Strong matches (174)

despoil despoilment despoliation destroy destruction detritus devastate devastation devour die die away die out digestion diminish dirt disappear discards discharge dishwater disintegration

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disorganization dispatch dispel disperse disruption dissipate dissipation dissolution dissolve dive do a fade-out do in draff drain drained dregs dribble away dried up dried-up drivel droop drop drop off dry dry up dust dust bowl dustcart dwindle eating up ebb effluent egesta ejecta ejectamenta ejection emacerate emaciate emaciation empty end engorge erase erode erosion evanesce evaporate evaporation excrement excreta excretes execute exhaust exhausted exhaustion exit expend expending expenditure exterminate extravagance extravagancy extravasate extravasation exudate exudation fade fade away fade out fag end fail fall fall away fall off fallow filings finish finishing fix flag flee fleet fly fool away fossil fritter frivol fruitless gash gaunt gelded get give out give the business go go away go up in smoke gobble gobble up godforsaken gun down gut gut with fire havoc heath hecatomb hide hinterland hit hogwash holdover holocaust howling wilderness husk husks ice idle impotent impoverishment incinerate incontinence ineffectual infecund infertile ingestion intemperance issueless jejune jungle junk karroo kelter kill

Verb(16 words)

devastate do do for do in duppy eliminate emaciate eradicate ex extinguish extirpate fuck get rid of grease harry iron out

Noun(4 words)

dissipation dreck feces fudge

Adjective(1 words)

godforsaken

Related words (290)

Verb(33 words)

kill knock off languish lay waste to liquidate macerate mortify neutralise neutralize nuke obliterate pine away piss away pop off race ravage ravel raze remove rot

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run off scourge slay snuff out squander stop someone's clock subvert take top uproot ware wax wet

languish lavish lavishness lay in ruins lay out lay waste lay waste to leached leakage leaking purse leave no trace leave the scene leavings lees leftover leftovers lessen let up lifeless litter

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loaf loose purse strings lose lose strength loss lunar landscape lunar waste macerate marcescence melt melt away menopausal muck murder neutralize nonfertile nonproducing nonproductive nonprolific odds and ends off offal offscourings orts outback overdoing overgenerosity overgenerousness overliberality parch paring parings pass pass away pass out peak pelf perdition perish peter out pillage pine plummet plunge polish off potsherds pound-foolishness preshrink prodigality profligacy profuseness profusion rag rags raid rasping raspings ravage reckless expenditure reckless spending relics remainder remains remnant residue residuum rest retire from sight riffraff rinsing roach rub out rubble ruin ruinate ruination ruins rummage rump run down run dry run low run out run to seed run to waste sack sag sahara salt flat sawdust scouring scourings scrap scrap iron scraps scum sear settle shadow shambles shard shards shaving shavings shipwreck shrink shrinkage shrivel sine prole sink slack slag slaughter slop slops spend spending spill spoil spoliate spoliation squander squandering squandermania sterile straw strip stubble stump subside sucked dry suffer an eclipse survival swallow up sweeping sweepings swill sylvan tail off take care of tare tares teemless thin thriftlessness throw throw into disorder trace transudate transudation trash trashy uncultivated undoing unfertile unfruitful unleash destruction unleash the hurricane unplowed unproductive unprolific unsown untilled up country up-country upheave use use up using using up vandalism vandalize vanish vanish from sight vaporize vestige virgin wane wastage waste away waste matter wasted wastefulness wastepaper wasting away weaken wear wear and tear wear away wearing wearing away wearing down weary waste weazen weed weeds wild wildness wilds wilt wilting wipe out wither wither away withering without issue wizen woodland wrack wrack and ruin wreak havoc wreck zap

Noun(23 words)

ordure pelf permissive waste piece of garbage piece of junk piece of shit piece of trash pile of shit poop scrap shit shitter stinky stool stuff thriftlessness toot voluntary waste waste material waste matter

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waste product wastefulness wasteland

Adjective(1 words)

wild

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

14 relation types

More general

43 entries

act activity apply consume course debilitate deed degenerate deplete destroy deteriorate devolve drain drop eat

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Antonyms

11 entries

conserve conserving keep recycle save treasure use use all useful valuable

Synonyms

14 entries

barren consume desert discards garbage godforsaken lay waste to neutralize pine away refuse rubbish thriftlessness wasteland wilderness

Related terms

1 entries

Waste in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

at location

2 entries

trash waste bin

causes

1 entries

emaciate

derived

81 entries

a mind is a terrible thing to waste agrowaste ameliorative waste bulky waste cotton waste e-waste food waste disposer get wasted go to waste great haste makes great waste green waste haste makes waste industrial waste lay waste lie waste never waste a crisis

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distinct from

11 entries

frugal intake needed recycling save saving usable use used useful wanted

has context

5 entries

geology historical law legal slang

is a

5 entries

act activity material ore unuseful to people

manner of

5 entries

devolve discard enfeeble run use

receives action

2 entries

put in bin reused by recycling

related to

201 entries

abundance atrophy bad bad smelling bad thing bad use basket being being greedy bin body body excrement by product byproduct cans cause of action

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similar

2 entries

blow inhospitable

Translations

493 translations across 65 languages.

Albanian

2 entries

mbeturina noun (useless by-products, garbage)
plehera noun (useless by-products, garbage)

Armenian

1 entries

վատնել verb (to squander)

Asturian

1 entries

españar verb (to destroy — see also devastate, lay waste)

Azerbaijani

4 entries

atıntı noun (useless by-products, garbage)
bədxərclik noun (action of wasting, ineffective use)
israf noun (action of wasting, ineffective use)
israfçılıq noun (action of wasting, ineffective use)

Bulgarian

4 entries

бракуван adj (excess)
негоден adj (excess)
ненужен adj (superfluous; needless)
необработен adj (barren)

Catalan

4 entries

malbaratament noun (action of wasting, ineffective use)
pèrdua noun (action of wasting, ineffective use)
destruir verb (to destroy — see also devastate, lay waste)
malbaratar verb (to squander)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

浪費 /浪费 noun (action of wasting, ineffective use)
荒地 noun (wasteland, desolate region)
浪費 /浪费 verb (to squander)
白費 /白费 verb (to squander)

Czech

1 entries

odpad noun (useless by-products, garbage)

Danish

3 entries

affald noun (useless by-products, garbage)
spild noun (action of wasting, ineffective use)
ødemark noun (wasteland, desolate region)

Dutch

4 entries

braakliggend adj (barren)
overtollig adj (excess)
woest adj (barren)
afval noun (useless by-products, garbage)

Esperanto

3 entries

dezerto noun (wasteland, desolate region)
rubo noun (useless by-products, garbage)
malŝpari verb (to squander)

Estonian

1 entries

raiskama verb (to destroy — see also devastate, lay waste)

Finnish

4 entries

karu adj (barren)
liiallinen adj (excess)
liiallinen adj (superfluous; needless)
liika adj (excess)

French

4 entries

dégradation noun (gradual loss or decay)
dégénération noun (gradual loss or decay)
gaspillage noun (action of wasting, ineffective use)
stérile noun (wasteland, desolate region)

Galician

1 entries

deserto noun (wasteland, desolate region)

German

4 entries

Schmutz adj (superfluous; needless)
brach adj (barren)
verschmutzt adj (superfluous; needless)
wüst adj (barren)

Gothic

1 entries

𐌳𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌷𐌾𐌰𐌽 verb (to squander)

Greek

2 entries

απόρριμμα noun (useless by-products, garbage)
σκουπίδι noun (useless by-products, garbage)

Hebrew

2 entries

אבטלה noun (useless by-products, garbage)
אבטלה noun (action of wasting, ineffective use)

Hindi

4 entries

अपशिष्ट noun (excrement or urine)
कचरा noun (useless by-products, garbage)
कूड़ा noun (useless by-products, garbage)
बंजर noun (wasteland, desolate region)

Hungarian

4 entries

kietlen adj (barren)
puszta adj (barren)
bányameddő noun (disused mine)
hulladék noun (useless by-products, garbage)

Icelandic

3 entries

drasl noun (useless by-products, garbage)
rusl noun (useless by-products, garbage)
sorp noun (useless by-products, garbage)

Ido

3 entries

nekultivita adj (barren)
eceso noun (action of wasting, ineffective use)
exkremento noun (excrement or urine)

Ingrian

1 entries

mänettää verb (to squander)

Irish

4 entries

dríodar noun (useless by-products, garbage)
vásta noun (action of wasting, ineffective use)
meath verb (to squander)
meil verb (to squander)

Italian

4 entries

arido adj (barren)
deserto adj (barren)
di rifiuto adj (excess)
di scarto adj (excess)

Japanese

4 entries

不必要 adj (superfluous; needless)
無駄 adj (excess)
荒れた adj (barren)
ゴミ noun (useless by-products, garbage)

Khmer

1 entries

ខ្ជះខ្ជាយ verb (to squander)

Korean

4 entries

낭비 noun (action of wasting, ineffective use)
랑비 noun (action of wasting, ineffective use)
배설물 noun (excrement or urine)
낭비하다 verb (to squander)

Lao

1 entries

ຜານ verb (to squander)

Latgalian

2 entries

izgubeit verb (to destroy — see also devastate, lay waste)
sajaukt verb (to destroy — see also devastate, lay waste)

Latin

2 entries

ēiectāmenta noun (useless by-products, garbage)
prōdigō verb (to squander)

Latvian

4 entries

atkritumi noun (useless by-products, garbage)
izpostīt verb (to destroy — see also devastate, lay waste)
izputināt verb (to destroy — see also devastate, lay waste)
izšķiest verb (to squander)

Luxembourgish

4 entries

Dreck noun (useless by-products, garbage)
Offall noun (useless by-products, garbage)
Verfall noun (gradual loss or decay)
Verschwendung noun (action of wasting, ineffective use)

Malayalam

1 entries

മാലിന്യം noun (useless by-products, garbage)

Middle English

4 entries

wast adj (barren)
wast adj (excess)
wast noun (useless by-products, garbage)
wast noun (wasteland, desolate region)

Māori

4 entries

karaweta noun (useless by-products, garbage)
paranga noun (useless by-products, garbage)
paraweta noun (useless by-products, garbage)
tuakau noun (wasteland, desolate region)

Nepali

4 entries

कचर noun (useless by-products, garbage)
कचरा noun (useless by-products, garbage)
फोहर noun (useless by-products, garbage)
फोहोर noun (useless by-products, garbage)

Ngazidja Comorian

1 entries

ulatsa verb (to squander)

Northern Kurdish

2 entries

gilêş noun (useless by-products, garbage)
paşmayî noun (useless by-products, garbage)

Norwegian Bokmål

4 entries

avsvekke verb (to weaken)
forspille verb (to squander)
sette over styr verb (to squander)
skusle bort verb (to squander)

Old English

1 entries

forspillan verb (to squander)

Oromo

1 entries

baraaxuu verb (to squander)

Ottoman Turkish

4 entries

قیراچ adj (barren)
چوراق adj (barren)
خراب noun (place that has been laid waste)
قیر noun (large tract of uncultivated land)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

Aufgank noun (useless by-products, garbage)

Polish

2 entries

śmieci noun (useless by-products, garbage)
marnować verb (to squander)

Portuguese

4 entries

degeneração noun (gradual loss or decay)
degradação noun (gradual loss or decay)
dejeto noun (useless by-products, garbage)
deserto noun (wasteland, desolate region)

Romanian

4 entries

deșert adj (barren)
inutil adj (superfluous; needless)
prisos adj (excess)
pustiu adj (barren)

Russian

4 entries

отбро́сы noun (useless by-products, garbage)
отхо́ды noun (useless by-products, garbage)
пу́стошь noun (wasteland, desolate region)
растра́та noun (action of wasting, ineffective use)

Saisiyat

1 entries

'a'abaS verb (to squander)

Sanskrit

1 entries

मरु noun (wasteland, desolate region)

Scottish Gaelic

4 entries

fàs adj (barren)
ana-caitheamh noun (action of wasting, ineffective use)
call noun (useless by-products, garbage)
call noun (action of wasting, ineffective use)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

otpad noun (useless by-products, garbage)
smeće noun (useless by-products, garbage)
отпад noun (useless by-products, garbage)
смеће noun (useless by-products, garbage)

Spanish

4 entries

acribaduras noun (useless by-products, garbage)
ahechadura noun (useless by-products, garbage)
ahechaduras noun (useless by-products, garbage)
andurrial noun (wasteland, desolate region)

Swedish

4 entries

öde adj (barren)
överflödig adj (excess)
överflödig adj (superfluous; needless)
avfall noun (useless by-products, garbage)

Tagalog

4 entries

baog adj (barren)
higit adj (excess)
labis adj (excess)
labis adj (superfluous; needless)

Telugu

3 entries

చెత్త noun (useless by-products, garbage)
కృశించు verb (to weaken)
వృధా చేయు verb (to squander)

Thai

4 entries

กาก noun (useless by-products, garbage)
ขยะ noun (useless by-products, garbage)
ผลาญ verb (to squander)
เสีย verb (to squander)

Turkish

4 entries

atık noun (useless by-products, garbage)
israf noun (action of wasting, ineffective use)
harcamak verb (to squander)
çarçur etmek verb (to squander)

Ukrainian

4 entries

пу́стка adj (barren)
відхо́ди noun (useless by-products, garbage)
сміття́ noun (useless by-products, garbage)
уті́ль noun (useless by-products, garbage)

Uyghur

1 entries

زايا noun (action of wasting, ineffective use)

Vietnamese

1 entries

hao mòn verb (to decay)

Walloon

2 entries

furler verb (to squander)
kischirer verb (to squander)

Welsh

1 entries

diffeithdir noun (wasteland, desolate region)

Woiwurrung

1 entries

toorongjering-noorong verb (to squander)

Sample sentences

33 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

This day was just a waste of time and money.

Source: tatoeba (2029)

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

Source: tatoeba (2279)

Haste makes waste.

Source: tatoeba (19729)

Hurry up. We've little time to waste.

Source: tatoeba (19742)

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.