trash heap

Questions about trash heap

What is another word for trash heap?

It depends which trash heap you mean. In the sense “an accumulation of refuse and discarded matter”, the synonyms are garbage heap, junk heap, rubbish heap, scrapheap, 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 trash heap?

WordNet records no antonym for trash 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 trash 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 trash heap

• Full entry for trash heapAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for trash 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.