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, garbage, food waste, refuse

2. drivel, garbagenoun

   a worthless message

   Synonyms:
   refuse, drool, drivel, scraps, dribble, garbage, 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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How to use GARBAGE in a sentence?

1. Darby Hoover:

   A lot of people think of an island of floating garbage, people envision that there are forms of an island you can see on Google Earth -- it's much more diffuse than that.

2. Frank Zappa, Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980:

   The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work.

3. Katherine Fernandez Rundle:

   If there is evidence that meets the requirements of South Florida over the weekend law for a criminal prosecution of these, vile hate-fill( sic) pamphlets, we will take this matter to our criminal courts, we will not allow hate mongers, who are leaving garbage throughout our community, to divide and harm our community.

4. Giovanni Gambino:

   Don't be Jealous on some people success...Remember this, a full Garbage bag stands up too. It what's inside the bag that counts.

5. Alexander Sandoval:

   I grabbed my son and tried to break into one of the local buildings, but I couldn’t, i kept running and ran into an alley and put my son in a garbage dumpster, so he could be safe.