WASTE
What does "WASTE" mean?
To use carelessly or fail to use something to good effect.
Meanings
- To use or expend carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose. Don't waste water during the drought.
- Unwanted or unusable material left over from a process; refuse. The factory pipes its waste into a treatment plant.
- A barren, uninhabited, or devastated region. Beyond the fence lay a frozen waste of ice and rock. literary
- Discarded as no longer useful; left over. Waste paper piled up beside the printer.
Did you know?
- 'Waste' and 'vast' are etymological twins: both trace back to the Latin 'vastus', meaning empty or desolate - a wasteland and a vast plain were once the same idea.
Word origin
From Anglo-Norman 'waster' and Latin 'vastare' (to lay waste, devastate), from 'vastus' (empty, desolate) - the same root as 'vast'.
A little poem
Tap left running clear -
the river you will not drink
leaving down the drain.
haiku
Wordplay
- I spent all afternoon organizing my recycling bin. My partner called it a waste of time. I said no - it's a time of waste.
What it teaches
Waste is rarely the thing thrown out; it's the use you never got around to.
Quick facts
What does WASTE mean?
To use carelessly or fail to use something to good effect.
Is WASTE a valid word?
Yes — WASTE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is WASTE?
WASTE has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does WASTE come from?
From Anglo-Norman 'waster' and Latin 'vastare' (to lay waste, devastate), from 'vastus' (empty, desolate) - the same root as 'vast'.
What can WASTE teach us?
Waste is rarely the thing thrown out; it's the use you never got around to.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.