Synonyms: haggard, skeletal, cadaverous, bony, emaciated, gaunt, wasted, pinched
Definition: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
Usage: 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
Definition: lacking excess flesh
Usage: you can't be too rich or too thin; Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look-Shakespeare
Synonyms: wasted, squandered
Definition: not used to good advantage
Usage: squandered money cannot be replaced; a wasted effort
Similar words: lost
Definition: no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered
Usage: a lost child; lost friends; his lost book; lost opportunities
Synonyms: otiose, superfluous, purposeless, pointless, senseless, wasted
Definition: serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
Usage: otiose lines in a play; advice is wasted words; a pointless remark; a life essentially purposeless; senseless violence