Synonyms for garbage
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Trash — nonsense; gibberish
trash US, rubbish, junk, drivel, non-sense, hogwash, scrap, twaddle, swill, gibberish, tripe, offal, gobbledygook informal US, gobbledegook UK, moon-shine, mumbo-jumbo, jargon, prattle, humbug, flim-flam, ort, bilgewater, crap vulgar
2. Piece of junk — something or someone worthless
dirt bag, piece of junk, slop, piece of garbage, duff, cheapie informal, crapola slang, carrion dated, gash vulgar slang UK, pelf dated
Definitions
- n. 1
Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.
- n. 2
Nonsense; gibberish.
This machine translation is garbage.
- n. 3
Something or someone worthless.
Related words
Example sentences
- junk There's nothing in here but a lot of useless junk.
- drivel Such drivel. And to top it off, you believe her?
- hogwash I think that's a lot of hogwash.
By length
- 3 letters
- ben1, ort1
- 4 letters
- crap1, junk1, duff1, gash1, slop1, pelf
- 5 letters
- waste1, trash1, scrap1, tripe1, offal, swill1
- 6 letters
- refuse2, debris2, litter2, jargon2, drivel2, humbug2
- 7 letters
- rubbish2, carrion3, hogwash2, prattle2, twaddle2, gubbins2, cheapie, crapola
- 9 letters
- gibberish3
- 10 letters
- bilgewater
- 12 letters
- gobbledygook4, gobbledegook
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (refuse2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- ordures