English Explanatory Dictionary

wasty

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Resembling a waste or wasteland; desert; (by extension) deserted, desolate.
adj
  1. Containing or yielding much waste.
  2. Deteriorating, wasting away.
  3. Obese; excessively fat.
  4. Resembling cotton-waste (the leftover cotton fibers from manufacturing and post-consumer sources that can be recycled into new products).
  5. Wasteful.

Pronunciation

/ˈweɪsti/

Word forms

wasty wastier more wasty wastiest most wasty

Etymology

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”).

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