Word Type

Noun

Verb

Adjective

The word "wasting" can be used as noun, verb and adjective.

Word Relationships

Derived Terms

candle-wasting cerebral salt-wasting syndrome chronic wasting disease mass wasting sea star wasting disease sea-star wasting disease seastar wasting disease starfish wasting disease wasting disease wasting investment wasting palsy wasting sickness

Inflected/Variant Forms

waste

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

debility feebleness frailness frailty infirmity symptom valetudinarianism

Type Of (IsA)

loss of user rights poor type of spending

Related Terms

destruction lay waste waste waste away

Synonym Network

atrophy cachexia

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