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. Nathan Greenberg:

   We saw the [federally-mandated] food going right into the garbage, we had some of the healthiest trash cans in the state of New Hampshire.

2. Chris Christie:

   This is the kind of garbage that people point at who have an agenda, work for the candidate who you want to work for, that's fine with me.

3. Matthias Egger:

   You can think of it like the night sky. If you look up at night, you see all those white dots, that’s essentially what you see in the garbage patch. It’s not that dense, but there are a lot of them … out there, you start seeing more and more plastic the longer you look.

4. Peyton Manning:

   The allegation that I would do something like The NFL is complete garbage and is totally made up, it never happened. Never. I really can't believe somebody would put something like this on the air. Whoever said this is making stuff up.

5. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin:

   I respect the strike of the garbage collectors.