wasty.
Resembling a waste or wasteland; desert; (by extension) deserted, desolate.
Meaning & usage
Resembling a waste or wasteland; desert; (by extension) deserted, desolate.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English wasti, westy, westi, westiȝ (“desolate, deserted; destitute”), from Old English wēstiġ (“wasty, desert, desolate”), from Proto-West Germanic *wōstīg (“waste-like, deserted”), equivalent to waste + -y. Cognate with Scots wasty, waisty (“desolate, deserted; unoccupied”), Dutch woestig (“inhospitable, rugged, wild”), German Low German wööstig (“desolate”).
Containing or yielding much waste.
Deteriorating, wasting away.
Obese; excessively fat.
Resembling cotton-waste (the leftover cotton fibers from manufacturing and post-consumer sources that can be recycled into new products).
Wasteful.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English wasty (“extravagantly or wastefully expensive”), equivalent to waste + -y.
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