Synonyms of dreck

dreck

noun

ˈdrek 

variants also drek

1

as in garbage

discarded or useless material

he poured the dreck she called soup down the drain

Synonyms & Similar Words

• garbage
• debris
• trash
• junk
• rubbish
• dust
• sewage
• litter
• dross
• rubble
• truck
• waste
• offal
• chaff
• deadwood
• refuse
• effluvium
• riffraff
• scrap
• wreckage
• raffle
• swill
• detritus
• offscouring
• crud
• spilth
• lumber
• ruins
• wash
• flotsam
• slop
• trumpery
• dump
• scrap heap
• remains
• jetsam
• discard
• nothing
• straw
• reject
• throwaway
• cull
• odds and ends
• castoff
• two bits
• hand-me-down

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• treasure
• gem
• trove
• prize
• pearl
• plum
• jewel
• treasure trove
• catch
• find
• goody
• valuable
• salvage
• booty

2

as in junk

that which is of low quality or worth

can you believe that the gallery owner dares to call that dreck "art"?

Synonyms & Similar Words

• junk
• cheese
• rubbish
• trash
• tripe
• muck
• camp
• crapola
• nonsense
• lemon
• slop
• bomb
• mess
• slush
• claptrap
• sleaze
• kitsch
• stinker
• humbug
• turkey
• dud
• clinker
• clunker
• shambles
• muddle

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of dreck

Even if a viewer doesn’t understand the underlying ideology, the memes can lead to more, and more overt, neo-Nazi dreck. — Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026

And, man, there’s a lot of dreck. — Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025

As with any high-volume enterprise, there was lots of forgettable dreck, but the Stanford’s series is the cream of the crop — curated by British film critic and writer David Thomson, who now lives in the Bay Area. — Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2025

Told in flashback, the film traces the progress of producer Jonathan Shields (Kirk Douglas) from B-movie dreck to A-list Oscar winners to box office flops. — Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 20 Apr. 2025