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Synonyms for garbage
ˈgɑr bɪdʒgarbage

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Wiktionary3.7 / 3 votes

  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 WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  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

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. garbagenoun

    Synonyms:
    refuse (of flesh), offal

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. garbagenoun

    Synonyms:
    offal, refuse, swill, waste

    Associated words:
    scavenger

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#7367refuse
#7949trash
#8345garbage
#8472junk
#12134litter
#12501wastes
#13877gut
#15089rubbish
#17148filth
#17767scraps
#24317bastards
#26943scum
#28936mcdonough
#37819drool
#38482dumpster
#43040drivel
#50992dribble
#54111detritus
#75988dustbin
#78194wastebasket
#158711slobber
#159015eviscerate
#303626disembowel

How to use garbage in a sentence?

  1. 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.

  2. Tal Winter:

    It’s bad for my health, it’s horrid for the environment and it’s also really ugly, it’s like a garbage accordion.

  3. Yeo Bee Yin:

    We urge the developed countries to review their management of plastic waste and stop shipping garbage to developing countries.

  4. Nick Castro:

    We filled eight big black garbage bags. They were so heavy we could barely pick them up, they had to have weighed at least a hundred pounds each.

  5. Josh Campbell:

    There is so much garbage out there on these sites, also, rarely do these shooters telegraph in advance the carnage they are about to cause.


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