throwaway

1. 1.

   thrown away

   “wearing someone's cast-off clothes”

   “throwaway children living on the streets”

   “salvaged some thrown-away furniture”

   Synonymscast-offdiscardedthrown-away

   Similarunwanted
2. 2.

   intended to be thrown away after use

   “throwaway diapers”

   Similardisposable

Other forms of throwaway

plural

throwaways·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about throwaway

What does throwaway mean?

throwaway means "(sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in throwaway?

throwaway has 3 syllables: thro-wa-way. The stress falls on "thro". In IPA it is /ˈθɹoʊəˌweɪ/.

What is another word for throwaway?

Close synonyms include street arab, gamin, circular, handbill, bill. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is throwaway a common word?

throwaway is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with throwaway?

55 words rhyme with throwaway. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.