Entry Word: garbage

Function: noun

Meaning: discarded or useless material <the stray dogs were looking for leftover food in the family's garbage>

Synonyms chaff, deadwood, dross, dust, junk, litter, refuse, riffraff, rubbish, scrap, trash, waste

Related Words offal, sewage, slop, swill, wash; debris, detritus, rubble, ruins; lumber, odds and ends; flotsam, jetsam; castoff, cull, discard, reject, throwaway; nothing, straw, two bits

Near Antonyms catch, treasure, treasure trove

Antonyms find, prize