| Main Entry: | detritus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | debris |
Synonyms: |
deposit, fragments, grains, leavings, rubble, scree, sediment, shavings |
| Notes: | detritus originally meant 'wearing away by rubbing' - the action, not the product; now detritus is rubble or debris and detrition is erosion by friction |
| Main Entry: | debris |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | litter, waste |
Synonyms: |
bits, crap, detritus, dregs, dross, fragments, garbage, junk, offal, pieces, refuse, remains, riffraff, rubbish, rubble, ruins, trash, wreck, wreckage |
| Notes: | debris is the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up; garbage is food that is discarded or useless rubbish or a receptacle where rubbish is discarded; trash is worthless material that is to be disposed or a worthless or contemptible person |
Antonyms: |
cleanliness, neatness, purity |
| Main Entry: | garbage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | refuse, litter |
Synonyms: |
bits and pieces, debris, detritus, dreck, dregs, dross, filth, junk, muck, odds and ends, offal, rubbish, rubble, scrap, scrapings, sewage, slop, sweepings, swill, trash, waste |
| Main Entry: | litter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mess, debris |
Synonyms: |
clutter, collateral, confusion, detritus, disarray, disorder, garbage, hash, hodgepodge, jumble, jungle, junk, mishmash, muck, muddle, offal, rash, refuse, rubbish, rummage, scattering, scramble, shuffle, trash, untidiness, waste |
Antonyms: |
cleanliness, sterility |
| Main Entry: | remainder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | balance, residue |
Synonyms: |
bottom of barrel, butt, carry-over, detritus, dregs, excess, fragment, garbage, hangover, heel, junk, leavings, leftover, obverse, oddment, odds and ends, overplus, refuse, relic, remains, remnant, residuum, rest, ruins, salvage, scrap, stump, surplus, trace, vestige, waste, wreck, wreckage |
Antonyms: |
base, core |
| Main Entry: | remains |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | remaining part |
Synonyms: |
debris, detritus, leavings, leftovers, remainder, remnant, remnants, residue, rest, scraps |
| Main Entry: | ruins |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | buildings that are dilapidated |
Synonyms: |
ashes, debris, destruction, detritus, foundation, relics, remains, remnants, residue, rubble, traces, vestiges, wreck, wreckage |
| Concept: | [Thing remaining] Remainder. |
| Category: | 3. CONJUNCTIVE QUANTITY |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
remainder, residue; remains, remanet, remnant, rest, relic; leavings, heeltap, odds and ends, cheeseparings, candle ends, orts; residuum; dregs (dirt); refuse (useless); stubble, result, educt; fag-end; ruins, wreck, skeleton, stump; alluvium., surplus, overplus, excess; balance, complement; superplus, surplusage; superfluity (redundance); survival, survivance.
-verbs
remain; be left; exceed, survive; leave.
-adjectives
remaining, left; left behind left over; residual, residuary; over, odd; unconsumed, sedimentary; surviving; net; exceeding, over and above; outlying, outstanding; cast off; superfluous (redundant).
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