offscouring | Definition of offscouring

Synonyms and Antonyms of offscouring

1 discarded or useless material

the foundry's offscouring was the neighborhood's eyesore

Synonyms of offscouring

chaff, deadwood, debris, dreck (also drek), dross, dust, effluvium (also effluvia), garbage, junk, litter, offal, raffle, refuse, riffraff, rubbish, scrap, spilth, trash, truck, waste

Words Related to offscouring

crud, sewage, slop, swill, wash

detritus, remains, rubble, ruins

dump, scrap heap

lumber, odds and ends, trumpery

flotsam, jetsam, wreckage

castoff, cull, discard, hand-me-down, reject, throwaway

nothing, straw, two bits

Near Antonyms of offscouring

catch, gem, goody (or goodie), jewel, pearl, plum, prize, treasure, treasure trove, trove, valuable

booty, find, salvage

2 one who is cast out or rejected by society

the hills are controlled by bandits and other unsavory offscourings who have taken up a life outside the law

Synonyms of offscouring

castaway, castoff, leper, outcast, pariah, reject

Words Related to offscouring

deportee, exile

Near Antonyms of offscouring