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junk

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of junk

1 that which is of low quality or worth

couldn't believe that such junk was chosen to be read for the book club

my car is junk—it spends more time in the shop than on the road

Synonyms of junk

cheese, crapola [slang], dreck (also drek), muck, rubbish, sleaze, slop, slush, trash, tripe

Words Related to junk

claptrap, humbug, nonsense

bomb, clinker, clunker, dud, lemon, stinker, turkey

mess, muddle, shambles

2 discarded or useless material

junk on the side of the road waiting for the trash collection

Synonyms of junk

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

Words Related to junk

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 of junk

catch, gem, goody (or goodie), jewel, pearl, plum, prize, treasure, treasure trove, trove, valuable

booty, find, salvage

junk

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of junk

to get rid of as useless or unwanted

we'll have to junk this old car

Synonyms of junk

cashier, cast (off), chuck, deep-six, discard, ditch, dump, eighty-six (or 86), exorcise (also exorcize), fling (off or away), jettison, lay by, lose, pitch, reject, scrap, shed, shuck (off), slough (off) also sluff (off) , throw away, throw out, toss, unload

Words Related to junk

abandon, abdicate, desert, forsake

dismiss, kick out

abolish, annihilate, eliminate, eradicate, expunge, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, liquidate, remove, root (out), stamp (out), wipe out

Phrases Synonymous with junk

dispose of, set aside

Near Antonyms of junk

adopt, embrace, take on

employ, use, utilize

hold, hold back, keep, retain

Synonym Discussion of junk

discard, cast, shed, slough, scrap, junk mean to get rid of. discard implies the letting go or throwing away of something that has become useless or superfluous though often not intrinsically valueless.

- discard old clothes

cast, especially when used with off, away, or out, implies a forceful rejection or repudiation.

- cast off her friends

shed and slough imply a throwing off of something both useless and encumbering and often suggest a consequent renewal of vitality or luster.

- shed a bad habit
- finally sloughed off the depression

scrap and junk imply throwing away or breaking up as worthless in existent form.

- scrap all the old ways
- would junk our educational system

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