wasted time
Frittered away moments
Wasted time is time spent without productive result or meaningful purpose.
The phrase implies regret or frustration—time that could have been better used: All those meetings were wasted time.
What counts as wasted depends on perspective; one person's wasted time is another's leisure.
- unproductiveFailing to achieve results
- dawdlingLeisurely time-wasting
- delayingCausing later occurrence
- idlenessState of doing nothing
- procrastinationHabitual task avoidance
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- productivity killersdistractions, procrastination, multitasking, micromanagement, bottleneck
- idlingidle, idled, loaf, loafed, laze
- stagnationstagnation, standstill, stasis, deadlock, stalemate
- time sayingscarpe diem, seize the day, better late than never, tempus fugit, this too shall pass
wasted timequality time
Meaningful interaction period
meaningful work · accomplishment · productive labor · intentional living
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