different between wasted vs gaunt

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?st??d, IPA^(key): /?we?st?d/
• Homophone: waisted

Adjective

wasted (comparative more wasted, superlative most wasted)

1. Not profitably used.

   Synonyms: down the toilet, misspent, squandered

2. Ravaged or deteriorated.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:deteriorated

3. Emaciated and haggard.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:weak, Thesaurus:scrawny

4. (slang) Very drunk or stoned.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:drunk, Thesaurus:stoned
5. (medicine) Low weight-for-height (for a person).

   Synonym: underweight

Translations

See also

• (medicine): stunted

Verb

wasted

1. simple past tense and past participle of waste

Anagrams

• stawed, tawsed, wadest, wadset

English

Alternative forms

• gant (dialectal, Scotland)
• gent (Scotland)

Etymology

From Middle English gawnt, gawnte (“lean, slender”), from Old French [Term?], probably from a Scandinavian/North Germanic source, related to Old Norse gandr (“magic staff, stick”), from Proto-Germanic *gandaz (“stick, staff”), from Proto-Indo-European *g??en- (“to beat, hit, drive”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: gônt, IPA^(key): /???nt/
• (some accents) enPR: gänt, IPA^(key): /???nt/
• Rhymes: -??nt, -??nt

Adjective

gaunt (comparative gaunter, superlative gauntest)

1. lean, angular, and bony
2. haggard, drawn, and emaciated
3. bleak, barren, and desolate

Synonyms

• scraggy, scrawny, skinny

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “gaunt”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• Tunga, untag

Scots

Etymology

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Alternative forms

• gant

Verb

gaunt

1. To yawn.

Noun

gaunt (plural gaunts)

1. A yawn.