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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

camp, kitsch

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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