waste matter

Questions about waste matter

What does waste matter mean?

waste matter means "any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted".

What is another word for waste matter?

Close synonyms include waste, waste material, waste product. 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 waste matter a common word?

waste matter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.