Synonyms for waste-water
- noun
Most common
All synonyms
Noun
sewage, effluent, poop water informal, black water, gray water, sullage rare, washwater rare
Definitions
- n. 1
Any water that has been used in some human domestic or industrial activity and, as a result, now contains waste products.
Near-synonyms: sewage, sullage, graywater, blackwater, washwater, poop water (informal)
Related words
- Other spellings
- waste water wastewater
Example sentences
- sewage There's a problem; the sewage tank is overflowing.
- effluent The tannery used to discharge effluent straight into the river.
By length
- 6 letters
- sewage2
- 7 letters
- sullage
- 8 letters
- effluent3
- 9 letters
- washwater
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (sewage2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- eaux usées
- Deutsch
- Abwasser