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

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1. garbage, refuse, food waste, scrapsnoun

   food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)

   Synonyms:
   drivel, scraps, food waste, refuse

2. drivel, garbagenoun

   a worthless message

   Synonyms:
   refuse, drool, drivel, scraps, dribble, 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. Pascale Nassar:

   Unfortunately, the streets are filled up with garbage but we can't find an alternative now. The plan should come from the state, and we will then act upon it.

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. Unknown:

   Damn and dump this Exit poll result in the garbage.

4. Todd Gilbert:

   Any group that comes to Richmond to spread white supremacist garbage, or any other form of hate, violence, or civil unrest isn't welcome here, house Republicans reject any attempt by any group to infuse any kind of twisted or extreme worldview into this fundamentally democratic exercise.

5. Bernie Sanders:

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