throwaway
/ˈθrəʊəweɪ
/adjective
1Denoting or relating to products that are intended to be discarded after being used once or a few times: a throwaway camera we live in a throwaway society...
- Hospitals welcomed the convenience of single-use throwaway products because they no longer had to be concerned with product age, overuse, breakage, and malfunction.
- As efforts to close the materials cycle intensify, throwaway products will be either banned or taxed out of existence.
- How refreshing it is that in the midst of a throwaway society there remain products designed and constructed to function as advertised, season after season.
Synonyms
disposable, expendable, one-use, non-returnable, one-way, single-trip;
cheap, ephemeral, obsolescent;
paper, plastic, biodegradable, photodegradable
2(Of a remark) expressed in a casual or understated way: some people overreacted to a few throwaway lines...
- It is always the casual throwaway comment, rather than your most carefully timed put-down, that is likely to cause terrible offence and end a friendship.
- Conor Lenihan showed an impressive grasp of his brief in the Dail today by reducing exploited Turkish workers to the status of kebab eaters in a throwaway remark directed at Joe Higgins.
- Emotions were running high and people might utter a few throwaway remarks but the general feeling is one of relief that he has gone.
Synonyms
casual, passing, careless, unthinking, unstudied, unconsidered, ill-considered, parenthetical;
nonchalant, offhand
noun
A thing intended to be discarded after brief use: the song is hardly even a throwaway...
- However, instead of becoming useless throwaways that will quickly be discarded, these items can be given to the blacksmith to be used as raw material so he can make you new armor or weapons.
- We decided to find out and asked three women in their 20s and 30s (who were still in nappies when throwaways were all the rage) to wear the new knickers and report back.
- I was rummaging through my box full of stuff (you know the kind of box one keeps for throwaways that don't quite make it into the garbage bin) and found something that amused me.
Rhymes
- bouncing
- bouncing Bet
- bouncing castle
- bouncy
- bouncy castle
- bound
- boundary
- boundary condition
- boundary layer
- boundary rider
- boundary umpire
- boundary value
- Boundary Waters
- bounden
- bounder
- bound form
- boundless
- boundlessly
- boundlessness
- bound up in
- bound up with (or in)
- bounteous
- bounteously
- bounteousness
- bountiful