Synonyms of garbage

garbage

noun

ˈgär-bij 

1

as in trash

discarded or useless material

the stray dogs were looking for leftover food in the family's garbage

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

2

as in nonsense

language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense

she was just talking garbage when she said that she was taking a loss on the sale of the house

Synonyms & Similar Words

• nonsense
• rubbish
• nuts
• trash
• blah
• stupidity
• drool
• silliness
• muck
• jazz
• bunk
• beans
• absurdity
• craziness
• rot
• claptrap
• baloney
• crock
• foolishness
• punk
• hogwash
• twaddle
• bilge
• guff
• trumpery
• balderdash
• insanity
• hokum
• absurdness
• bunkum
• bull
• hooey
• piffle
• poppycock
• madness
• tosh
• drivel
• bosh
• fudge
• humbuggery
• flapdoodle
• fiddle
• folderol
• tommyrot
• malarkey
• blatherskite
• codswallop
• blither
• crapola
• fiddlesticks
• blather
• applesauce
• nerts
• hokeypokey
• horsefeathers
• taradiddle
• fiddle-faddle
• folly
• blarney
• hoodoo
• flannel
• humbug
• senselessness
• moonshine
• slush
• idiocy
• gas
• inanity
• foolery
• kookiness
• greek
• tomfoolery
• imbecility
• asininity
• lunacy
• inaneness
• monkey business
• rigmarole
• fatuity
• witlessness
• hot air
• shenanigan(s)
• hocus-pocus
• monkeyshine(s)
• hoity-toity
• double-talk

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• rationality
• reasonableness
• sense
• common sense
• horse sense
• judgment
• reasonability
• sensibleness
• wisdom
• levelheadedness
• discernment

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of garbage

Like black bears in suburbs across large parts of North America that dig into people’s garbage. — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2026

Charlotteans illegally dump about 10 tons of trash every single day — much of it large, bulky items — and the city has to divert garbage crews from normal routes to collect it. — Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 24 July 2026

Cadaver dogs searched the storage facility, including the garbage areas, and did not find a body. — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 24 July 2026

Multiple gruesome photos of the crime scene were exhibited on screen during the first day of the preliminary hearing, showing a garbage bag with limbs inside as well as her bloody head and torso. — Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 24 July 2026