Need another word that means the same as “garbage”? Find 20 synonyms and 30 related words for “garbage” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Garbage” are: drivel, food waste, refuse, scraps, domestic refuse, waste, waste material, debris, detritus, litter, junk, scrap, nonsense, balderdash, gibberish, blarney, claptrap, guff, blather, blether
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “garbage” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| balderdash | Senseless talk or writing; nonsense. She dismissed talk of plots as balderdash. |
| blarney | Amusing and harmless nonsense. This story is perhaps just a bit of blarney. |
| blather | Foolish gibberish. All the blather coming out of Washington about crime. |
| blether | A chat or conversation. He knows he can be a blether sometimes. |
| claptrap | Absurd or nonsensical talk or ideas. Such sentiments are just pious claptrap. |
| debris | The remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up. Leaves and garden debris. |
| detritus | Gravel, sand, silt, or other material produced by erosion. The streets were foul with detritus. |
| domestic refuse | A servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household. |
| drivel | Nonsense. Don t talk such drivel. |
| food waste | Any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment. |
| gibberish | Unintelligible or meaningless speech or writing; nonsense. He talks gibberish. |
| guff | An unpleasant smell. |
| junk | Junk bonds. You do anything for junk cheat lie steal. |
| litter | Decomposing but recognizable leaves and other debris forming a layer on top of the soil, especially in forests. A litter bin. |
| nonsense | Ornamental objects of no great value. Nonsense poetry. |
| refuse | Food that is discarded (as from a kitchen. |
| scrap | Bits of uneaten food left after a meal. Poor little scrap she s too hot in that tight coat. |
| scraps | Food that is discarded (as from a kitchen. |
| waste | Unwanted or unusable material, substances, or by-products. They collect the waste once a week. |
| waste material | Reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect. |
| abandoned | Free from constraint- Liam O’Flaherty. Abandoned pets. |
| bin | Group together data in bins. She was a bit weird so I binned her off. |
| discard | Anything that is cast aside or discarded. West led a heart and East was able to discard his club loser. |
| discarded | Thrown away. |
| disposal | A kitchen appliance for disposing of garbage. England s 4 0 disposal of Turkey. |
| dispose | Incline (someone) towards a particular activity or mood. The government proposed but the trade union movement disposed. |
| dump | A heap of rubbish left at a dump. She dumped her knapsack on the floor. |
| dumping | Selling goods abroad at a price below that charged in the domestic market. |
| extravagance | A thing on which too much money has been spent or which has used up too many resources. His reckless extravagance with other people s money. |
| filth | A state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse. You and all the others like you are filth. |
| incinerator | An apparatus for burning waste material, especially industrial waste, at high temperatures until it is reduced to ash. |
| ineffective | Not producing an intended effect. An ineffective teacher. |
| inefficiency | Unskillfulness resulting from a lack of efficiency. The idea is to eliminate inefficiency creating a seamless manufacturing process. |
| inefficient | Not producing desired results; wasteful. An inefficient campaign against drugs. |
| junk | Junk bonds. You do anything for junk cheat lie steal. |
| landfill | An area filled in by landfill. Landfilled waste. |
| litter | Provide a horse or other animal with litter as bedding. Always clear up after a picnic and never drop litter. |
| prodigality | The trait of spending extravagantly. |
| recycling | The act of processing used or abandoned materials for use in creating new products. I forgot to take out the recycling. |
| refuse | Refuse entrance or membership. He s so conceited he d never believe anyone would refuse him. |
| reuse | Use again after processing. The tape could be magnetically erased and reused. |
| riffraff | Disparaging terms for the common people. |
| scavenge | Search for and collect (anything usable) from discarded waste. Bears and wolves scavenged for carcasses. |
| squander | Waste (something, especially money or time) in a reckless and foolish manner. 100m of taxpayers money has been squandered on administering the tax. |
| trash | Express a totally negative opinion of. Clubs patronized by rock trash. |
| useless | Having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully. She is useless in an emergency. |
| waste | Run off as waste. Her small talk was wasted on this guest. |
| wastebasket | A waste-paper basket. |
| wasteful | (of a person, action, or process) using or expending something of value carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose. A clumsy and wasteful process. |
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