garbage heap

Questions about garbage heap

What is another word for garbage heap?

It depends which garbage heap you mean. In the sense “an accumulation of refuse and discarded matter”, the synonyms are junk heap, rubbish heap, scrapheap, trash heap, junk pile, trash pile, refuse heap. Across all 1 sense there are 7 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of garbage heap?

WordNet records no antonym for garbage heap. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for garbage heap come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of garbage heap

• Full entry for garbage heapAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for garbage heapWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.