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wastier

wastier is the comparative form of wasty.

Meaning of wasty

Adjective (1)

wasty (comparative wastier or more wasty, superlative wastiest or most wasty)

  1. Resembling a waste or wasteland; desert; (by extension) deserted, desolate.
    • But, happily, we meet with circumstances that break in upon this routine and monotony, and we thank God, as Mungo Park did, when the moss peeped up at him from the wasty desert.1885, The Sunday Magazine, volume 14, page 199

Adjective (2)

wasty (comparative wastier, superlative wastiest)

  1. Containing or yielding much waste.
  2. Deteriorating, wasting away.
    • This fruit was well packed and nicely graded, but unfortunately a wasty condition prevented satisfactory prices being obtained.1924, The Journal of the Department of Agriculture of Victoria
  3. Obese; excessively fat.
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  4. (US) Resembling cotton-waste (the leftover cotton fibers from manufacturing and post-consumer sources that can be recycled into new products).
  5. (dated) Wasteful.

Questions about wastier

What is wastier the comparative form of?
Wastier is the comparative form of wasty.

Words near wastier in the dictionary

  1. wasteyard
  2. wasteyards
  3. wasteyute
  4. wasteyutes
  5. wastfull
  6. wastier
  7. wastiest
  8. wastin'
  9. wasting
  10. wasting away
  11. wasting breath

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wastier (page history and authors); wasty (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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