wasty /ˈweɪsti/ adjective6 •Containing or yielding much waste. •Obese; excessively fat.Then, too, the market demand is not so much for the extreme early maturing, excessive fat type, but it is for a trimmer, “less wasty” hog. — 1906 •Deteriorating, wasting away.This fruit was well packed and nicely graded, but unfortunately a wasty condition prevented satisfactory prices being obtained. — 1924 •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 •(US) Resembling cotton-waste (the leftover cotton fibers from manufacturing and post-consumer sources that can be recycled into new products). •(old-fashioned) Wasteful. formsmore wasty · wastier · most wasty · wastiest