garbage

gar·bage

noun \ˈgär-bij\

Definition of GARBAGE

1

a : food waste

b : discarded or useless material

2

a : trash 1b

b : inaccurate or useless data

Examples of GARBAGE

1. The park was littered with garbage.
2. Please take out the garbage.
3. Raccoons were going through the garbage.
4. Throw the can in the garbage.
5. If you ask me, what he said is a bunch of garbage.

Origin of GARBAGE

Middle English, offal

First Known Use: 15th century

Related to GARBAGE

Synonyms

chaff, deadwood, debris, dreck (also drek), dross, dust, effluvium (also effluvia), junk, litter, offal, offscouring, raffle, refuse, riffraff, rubbish, scrap, spilth, trash, truck, waste

Related Words

crud, sewage, slop, swill, wash; detritus, remains, rubble, ruins; dump, scrap heap; lumber, odds and ends, trumpery; flotsam, jetsam, wreckage; castoff, cull, discard, hand-me-down, reject, throwaway; nothing, straw, two bits

Near Antonyms

catch, gem, goody (or goodie), jewel, pearl, plum, prize, treasure, treasure trove, trove, valuable; booty, find, salvage

Other Ecology Terms

Malthusian, anthropogenic, biomass, carbon footprint, crepuscular, niche, sere, symbiosis, taiga, tundra