garbage
noun
gar·bage ˈgär-bij 
1
a
: food waste
b
: discarded or useless material
2
a
: trash sense 1b
b
: inaccurate or useless data
Synonyms
- chaff
- deadwood
- debris
- dreck
- drek
- dross
- dust
- effluvium
- effluvia
- junk
- litter
- offal
- offscouring
- raffle
- refuse
- riffraff
- rubbish
- scrap
- spilth
- trash
- truck
- waste
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Example Sentences
The park was littered with garbage. Please take out the garbage. Raccoons were going through the garbage. Throw the can in the garbage. If you ask me, what he said is a bunch of garbage.
Recent Examples on the Web Among the things the system was trained to notice were piles of garbage and mobile street vendors selling their wares on unauthorized corners. 
Josh Chin, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022 In Orange County, residents receive one collection of garbage, yard and recyclables a week at a cost of $250 a year. Martin E. Comas, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Aug. 2022 For larger deliveries, there's a separate autonomous vessel, which will also function as an ocean recycling vessel, collecting garbage and debris in order to keep the surrounding area clean. Tamara Hardingham-gill, CNN, 16 Aug. 2022 London Fire Brigade said its control room had dealt with 340 grass, garbage and open-land fires during the first week of August, eight times the number from last year. Sylvie Corbet And Vanessa Gera, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Aug. 2022 That station accepts household garbage, hazardous waste and construction materials. Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 5 July 2022 In the northern half of the county’s unincorporated territory, Groot is now the exclusive garbage, recycling and yard waste pickup service. Gavin Good, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2022 The city lacked pavement, so the streets became morasses of mud, garbage and rotting animal carcasses. Bridget Alex, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 June 2022 The bodies of a Washington couple killed last week were discovered in a garbage can, according to court documents that reveal new details about the brutal double-murder and how investigators caught the suspect. Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 24 Aug. 2022 See More
Josh Chin, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022 In Orange County, residents receive one collection of garbage, yard and recyclables a week at a cost of $250 a year. Martin E. Comas, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Aug. 2022 For larger deliveries, there's a separate autonomous vessel, which will also function as an ocean recycling vessel, collecting garbage and debris in order to keep the surrounding area clean. Tamara Hardingham-gill, CNN, 16 Aug. 2022 London Fire Brigade said its control room had dealt with 340 grass, garbage and open-land fires during the first week of August, eight times the number from last year. Sylvie Corbet And Vanessa Gera, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Aug. 2022 That station accepts household garbage, hazardous waste and construction materials. Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 5 July 2022 In the northern half of the county’s unincorporated territory, Groot is now the exclusive garbage, recycling and yard waste pickup service. Gavin Good, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2022 The city lacked pavement, so the streets became morasses of mud, garbage and rotting animal carcasses. Bridget Alex, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 June 2022 The bodies of a Washington couple killed last week were discovered in a garbage can, according to court documents that reveal new details about the brutal double-murder and how investigators caught the suspect. Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 24 Aug. 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
Middle English, "poultry organs and body parts used for food, poultry refuse," borrowed from Anglo-French *garbage (implied in sergant garbagere "kitchen servant tasked with plucking and cleaning poultry"), of obscure origin
Note: On morphological, semantic, or chronological grounds unlikely to be related to Anglo-French garbeler, Middle English garbelen "to remove (impurities) from spices" (see garble entry 1) or to Middle French gaburge, grabuge "quarrel, brawl." The Anglo-French collocation sergant garbagere indicates currency of the word as early as 1318 (Household Ordinances of Edward II).
First Known Use
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Phrases Containing garbage
Kids Definition
garbage
noun
gar·bage ˈgär-bij
1
: material (as waste food) that has been thrown out
2
: something that is worthless, useless, or untrue
Don't watch garbage on television.
garbage
noun
1
as in trash
discarded or useless material the stray dogs were looking for leftover food in the family's garbage Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- trash
- debris
- rubbish
- junk
- dust
- litter
- sewage
- truck
- rubble
- waste
- offal
- dross
- dreck
- refuse
- chaff
- deadwood
- drek
- scrap
- effluvium
- wreckage
- effluvia
- riffraff
- lumber
- raffle
- wash
- ruins
- spilth
- detritus
- offscouring
- dump
- crud
- swill
- remains
- discard
- flotsam
- trumpery
- slop
- scrap heap
- jetsam
- straw
- castoff
- nothing
- throwaway
- cull
- reject
- two bits
- odds and ends
- hand-me-down
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- treasure
- gem
- trove
- jewel
- treasure trove
- prize
- catch
- pearl
- plum
- goodie
- valuable
- salvage
- goody
- find
- booty
2
as in rubbish
language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense she was just talking garbage when she said that she was taking a loss on the sale of the house Synonyms & Similar Words
- rubbish
- nonsense
- nuts
- trash
- blah
- stupidity
- drool
- silliness
- muck
- jazz
- bunk
- beans
- claptrap
- baloney
- rot
- crock
- craziness
- hogwash
- foolishness
- twaddle
- punk
- guff
- bilge
- balderdash
- trumpery
- bull
- hokum
- insanity
- tosh
- bunkum
- piffle
- hooey
- drivel
- poppycock
- madness
- bosh
- crapola
- boloney
- flapdoodle
- fudge
- humbuggery
- malarkey
- fiddle
- tommyrot
- folderol
- blatherskite
- blither
- absurdity
- blather
- codswallop
- fiddlesticks
- falderal
- applesauce
- malarky
- blah-blah
- horsefeathers
- nerts
- folly
- humbug
- buncombe
- flannel
- blarney
- hoodoo
- tarradiddle
- slush
- fiddle-faddle
- senselessness
- moonshine
- idiocy
- hokeypokey
- greek
- taradiddle
- gas
- absurdness
- inanity
- foolery
- tomfoolery
- imbecility
- asininity
- lunacy
- inaneness
- kookiness
- rigmarole
- monkey business
- fatuity
- witlessness
- hot air
- shenanigan(s)
- monkeyshine(s)
- rigamarole
- hoity-toity
- hocus-pocus
- double-talk
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- rationality
- sense
- sensibleness
- horse sense
- reasonableness
- reasonability
- judgement
- judgment
- wisdom
- levelheadedness
- common sense
- discernment
- pre-concert
- pre-conciliar
- pre-configure
- pre-configured
- pre-configuring
- pre-conquest
- pre-consonantal
- pre-constructed
- pre-construction
- pre-conviction
- pre-cool
- pre-cooled
- pre-cooling
- pre-copulatory
- pre-Cortesian
- pre-Crag
- pre-crash
- pre-crease
- pre-creased
- pre-creasing
- pre-crisis
- pre-cut
- pre-Darwinian
- pre-Darwinianism
- pre-dawn