Synonyms for GARBAGE
ˈgɑr bɪdʒgarbage

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1. garbageverb

   Synonyms:
   gut, disembowel, eviscerate, refuse, trash, rubbish, waste, junk

   Antonyms:
   artifact, prize, resource, valuable, asset, find, treasure, catch, recyclable

2. garbagenoun

   To eviscerate.

   Synonyms:
   eviscerate, disembowel, gut, rubbish, trash, junk, waste, refuse

   Antonyms:
   catch, resource, artifact, valuable, find, prize, recyclable, asset, treasure

3. garbagenoun

   Nonsense; gibberish.

   Synonyms:
   trash, junk, refuse, waste, rubbish

   Antonyms:
   resource, treasure, artifact, find, asset, prize, valuable, catch, recyclable

4. garbagenoun

   Something or someone worthless.

   Synonyms:
   refuse, junk, waste, trash, rubbish

   Antonyms:
   catch, valuable, prize, recyclable, artifact, treasure, find, resource, asset

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. garbage, refuse, food waste, scrapsnoun

   food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)

   Synonyms:
   drivel, scraps, garbage, food waste, refuse

2. drivel, garbagenoun

   a worthless message

   Synonyms:
   refuse, drool, drivel, scraps, dribble, garbage, food waste, slobber

3. garbagenoun

   a receptacle where waste can be discarded

   "she tossed the moldy bread into the garbage"

   Synonyms:
   drivel, scraps, food waste, refuse

Matched Categories

1. • Message
   • Receptacle
   • Waste

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. garbagenoun

   Synonyms:
   refuse (of flesh), offal

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1. garbagenoun

   Synonyms:
   offal, refuse, swill, waste

   Associated words:
   scavenger

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1. List of paraphrases for "garbage":

   trash, refuse, rubbish, waste, detritus, dumpster, wastes, litter, dustbin, scum, junk, filth, mcdonough, bastards, wastebasket

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1. Cynthia Toscano:

   Anybody who had a delivery truck or vehicle and a uniform that matches, he just goes crazy, garbage man, mailman, police officer, fireman. It doesn't matter. But he knows that we like the mailman because … we have a pretty good mailman.

2. Mohammad Rafiq:

   We had a choice to go back and live in the house where my neighbours were killed or live near this garbage site. My father chose the garbage site.

3. Phillip Herrick:

   I think it's kids being kids, doing stupid stuff, i come down here all the time and find garbage left from damage done by kids.

4. Bernie Sanders:

   The schedule we had planned for Iowa is now in the garbage can.

5. Yoshitaka Ashimura:

   The amount of plastic garbage we collected was over our expectation.