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Synonyms for dregs

  • noun

Most common

scum lees riff-raff dross trash sediment rabble flotsam and jetsam

All synonyms

Noun

scum, lees, riff-raff, dross, trash, rabble, rubbish, sediment, refuse, flotsam and jetsam, sludge, grounds, residue, offal, debris, loser, outcast, settling, deposit, draff, grouts, feculence US, faeculence UK, residuum, trub, afterings

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    The sediment settled at the bottom of a liquid; the lees in a container of unfiltered wine.

Related words

Phrases
tofu dregs

Example sentences

  • scum Remove any scum that comes to the water surface.
  • dross Even the best authors can write dross.
  • trash Yanni's house is full of trash and smells of mold.
  • sediment Layers of sediment lay at the bottom of the riverbed.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
dregsrising
scumrising
leessteady
drosssteady
trashrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
scum1, lees1, trub
5 letters
trash1, loser2, offal, dross1, draff
6 letters
refuse2, debris2, sludge1, rabble2, grouts
7 letters
grounds1, deposit3, rubbish2, residue3, outcast2
8 letters
settling3, sediment3, residuum
9 letters
feculence, afterings
10 letters
faeculence

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (loser2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
lie
Italiano
feccia
Español
poso
Deutsch
Hefe
Català
deixalla