serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being;
"otiose lines in a play"
"advice is wasted words"
"a pointless remark"
"a life essentially purposeless"
"senseless violence"
not used to good advantage;
"squandered money cannot be replaced"
"a wasted effort"
(of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use;
"partial paralysis resulted in an atrophied left arm"
very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold;
"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"