wastebasket

1. 1.

   a container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish

   Synonymswastepaper basketwaste-paper basketwaste basketcircular file

   Broadercontainer

Other forms of wastebasket

plural

wastebaskets·

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 wastebasket

What does wastebasket mean?

wastebasket means "a container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish".

How many syllables are in wastebasket?

wastebasket has 3 syllables: wa-stebas-ket. The stress falls on "wa". In IPA it is /ˈweɪstˌbæskət/.

What is another word for wastebasket?

Close synonyms include wastepaper basket, waste-paper basket, waste basket, circular file. 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 wastebasket a common word?

wastebasket 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 wastebasket?

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