JUNKED Synonyms: 91 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in discarded

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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

Later in the month, from July 28 to 30, slow-moving thunderstorms dumped nearly 12 inches of rain over eastern New York, causing major flash flooding.

— Denise Chow, NBC news, 10 Aug. 2026
During the Great Depression, milk prices collapsed and dairy farmers dumped their own product in the street to protest.

— Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 10 Aug. 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

That night, the teens ditched the geriatric ward together to watch Blue Hawaii in the visitors’ lounge of the hospital.

— Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 7 Aug. 2026
In addition to clearing the deal, culture secretary Nandy has ditched plans to bring forward secondary legislation enabling Ofcom to examine how the Paramount-WBD deal would impact streaming services.

— Jake Kanter, Deadline, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of ditched

Verb

As they were stopped at a red light on the Strip, a white Cadillac pulled up alongside their vehicle and a gunman unloaded his weapon.

— Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2026
Riley worked a full count and then unloaded on a 3-2 splitter that caught too much of the plate.

— Chad Bishop, AJC.com, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of unloaded

Verb

Raz and Issacharoff scrapped their first scripts for Season 5 following the October 7 attack and reformulated with that shocking event at the center of the story.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 10 Aug. 2026
Blanche told members of Congress in June that the controversial fund was scrapped, and formally rescinded it earlier this week.

— Barbara Sprunt, NPR, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of scrapped

Verb

Conductor Nathalie Stutzmann made a convincing case for an unwieldy composition whose autographed score was given by Wagner's daughter-in-law, Winifried, to Hitler and lost in the destruction that ended World War II.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026
The date stood out to Browning, who’d lost thousands in anticipated shillings when 584 steerage and 253 second-class passengers chose drowning in a Canadian river over registering at one of his boarding houses near the port of Liverpool.

— Claire Carusillo, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026

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