Wasty
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈweɪsti/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Wasty is an adjective meaning Resembling a waste or wasteland; desert; (by extension) deserted, desolate.
Meaning
Resembling a waste or wasteland; desert; (by extension) deserted, desolate.
More Meanings
- Containing or yielding much waste.
- (of produce) Deteriorating, wasting away.
- (of livestock) Obese; excessively fat.
- (US) Resembling cotton-waste (the leftover cotton fibers from manufacturing and post-consumer sources that can be recycled into new products).
- (dated) Wasteful.
Example Sentences
Frequent on wasty places and in the desert.
A red-tailed hawk swooped down into a stand of prickly pears in a “wasty” moonscape.
It is formed of glacial rock in all sorts of shapes and sizes and gives a wasty, desert appearance.
These boundaries were a long way down into the desert, below a corner of that fearful wasty wild known as the Great Erg.
Word Forms
- wastier
- wastiest
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include wastey, porcine, fat-witted, blubbery, fatty, fatsome.
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