wasted

serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being

• “otiose lines in a play”
• “advice is wasted words”

not used to good advantage

• “squandered money cannot be replaced”
• “a wasted effort”

(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”

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”

made uninhabitable

• “upon this blasted heath” Shakespeare
• “a wasted landscape”