junky

adjective

ˈjəŋ-kē How to pronounce junky (audio)
Definition of junkynext
1
as in worthless
having no usefulness that broken watch you're wearing is junky

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2
as in cheap
of low quality a junky coat that is sure to fall apart after one winter

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Recent Examples of junky Cheap gifts don’t have to be junky. — Jessie Quinn, StyleCaster, 25 Nov. 2025 Just in the past two days, the spicy, junky stuff has come in a bit ( quantum , drones , upstart nuclear power ), helpfully. — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2025 Walmart has the same problem as Amazon with junky, super-cheap listings, and even Newegg keeps listings up like this. — Luke Larsen, Wired News, 28 Sep. 2025 The restaurant only has one Formica table in a junky storage area by the drink fountain. — Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for junky
Recent Examples of Synonyms for junky
  1. worthless
  2. cheap
  3. empty
  4. terrible
  5. poor
  6. bad
  7. inferior
  8. rotten
Adjective
  • And since Jace’s death, she’s treated Baela as nothing more than a defective surveillance drone — a worthless piece of tech that never spots Vhagar.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026
  • But trying to convince anybody of anything is completely worthless.
    — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of worthless
Adjective
  • Its latest pickup, the Ford Fathom, will cost a downright cheap $28,350, which should set it up to be a massive seller.
    — Michael Ballaban, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Which explains why even modern-day Russia has recently loaded up with the cheapest possible foreign labor from former Soviet satellite states.
    — Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of cheap
Adjective
  • All three terminals at Kharg have been empty for extended periods, according to shipping analysts at Windward.
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Meanwhile, empty-nest boomers sit on a disproportionate share of the family-size homes that millennial parents need but cannot find or afford.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of empty
Adjective
  • The delta between the disability from these diseases and the amount of funding and research being done on them is terrible.
    — Emily Forlini, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2026
  • And forty per cent was about how great Modi is and how terrible the opposition is.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of terrible
Adjective
  • But tensions have opened up between data center boosters and some community organizations that want to see more jobs and economic benefits go to local residents, especially predominantly poor Hispanic farm and food processing workers.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Conventional wisdom usually attributes those failures to changing markets, disruptive competitors, or poor leadership.
    — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of poor
Adjective
  • The last war, which began in 2014, left Yemen facing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
    — Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Even worse, Brooks directed him to contact his agent instead.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of bad
Adjective
  • Distillers pushed for federal oversight to distinguish authentic whiskey from inferior products.
    — Emily Price, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
  • Brain MRIs also found an increase in the surface area of the inferior frontal gyrus in the MIND diet group.
    — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 25 July 2026
Definition of inferior
Adjective
  • The meeting comes after Lineage Logistics, which operates the 500,000-square-foot facility, has already been cited by AQMD officials for the rotten odor.
    — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The veal barn had a smell Birdie had never smelled anywhere else—antiseptic, then sweet like a flower and rotten like manure.
    — Rachel Yoder, New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of rotten

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