JUNKED Synonyms: 91 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in discarded

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junked

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verb

past tense of junk

as in dumped

to get rid of as useless or unwanted we'll have to junk this old car

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Recent Examples of junked

Adjective

And indeed the grounds are littered with junked classics from the 1950s and '60s. — Priyanka Mattoo, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 July 2026 Plots littered with junked trunks, empty skid tanks, the rib cages of hoop houses picked clean. — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026 The lot was filled with junked cars, equipment and garbage, the report shows. — Kellie Love, Hartford Courant, 9 Mar. 2026

Verb

Kansas Citians used sandbags, broken concrete, mounds of dirt and rocks from local quarries, and junked cars to shore up the levees protecting Municipal Airport and North Kansas City. — Kansas City Public Library Staff, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2026 Note that this result doesn’t necessarily mean that the fraud detection should be junked. — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026 So Squeri junked the scoreboard. — Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 11 May 2026 Sets would be built and then junked only to be rebuilt again at considerable cost due to an overall lack of familiarity with standard Hollywood filmmaking procedures. — Chris Lee, Vulture, 27 Apr. 2026

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Adjective

In another development, researchers in the US developed a new method that could turn discarded data center hardware into a reliable, eco-friendly source of rare earths and valuable metals.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 16 Aug. 2025

Definition of discarded

Verb

Cope recovered and dumped Claudio over the barricade as Christian dragged himself to the corner for a tag.

— Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
By the end of the storm the following day, the system had dumped the equivalent of the area’s normal yearly rainfall on the canyon.

— Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 27 July 2026

Definition of dumped

Adjective

Investors and analysts are increasingly looking to other parts of the market, both to find neglected sources of value and to start assuming a defensive posture against a possible downturn.

— Tobias Burns, CNBC, 16 July 2026
Changing their environment is more reliable and more neglected.

— Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026

Definition of neglected

Verb

Maryam ditched her summer plans of working and studying in Kansas City for trying out with the Egyptian national team in Cairo.

— PJ Green July 24, Kansas City Star, 24 July 2026
In 2018, the Eagles won the Super Bowl on a trick play executed by a one-time third-round pick quarterback who got ditched a season earlier by the Kansas City Chiefs.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 24 July 2026

Definition of ditched

Verb

The team that has looked mostly hapless at the plate the last two months unloaded eight singles, seven home runs, four doubles, two walks and, on Christmas In July Night at Progressive Field, a partridge in a pear tree.

— Zack Meisel, New York Times, 21 July 2026
This means cargo must be unloaded at an intermediate hub and transferred onto another vessel before reaching its destination.

— Morten Johansen, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026

Definition of unloaded

Verb

Luna was set to reprise the role in a standalone series for Hulu, but that project was scrapped in 2019.

— Jordan Moreau, Variety, 26 July 2026
Williams also gave a number of songs from 2020’s Petals for Armor and 2021’s Flowers for Vases / Descansos their live debut, as her original tour plans to support those solo LPs were scrapped due to COVID.

— Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 26 July 2026

Definition of scrapped

Verb

Samaritan's Purse said nearly every patient treated at its field hospital has lost a family member or close friend.

— Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 22 July 2026
Jobs will be won and lost over the next six weeks, as the Lions attempt to right the wrongs that led to a NFC North fourth-place finish in 2025.

— Colton Pouncy, New York Times, 22 July 2026

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