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Antonyms for junk

Grammar : Noun
Spell : juhngk
Phonetic Transcription : dʒʌŋk

Definition of junk

Origin :
  • "worthless stuff," mid-14c., junke "old cable or rope" (nautical), of uncertain origin, perhaps from Old French junc "rush, reed," also used figuratively as a type of something of little value, from Latin iuncus "rush, reed" (but OED finds "no evidence of connexion"). Nautical use extended to "old refuse from boats and ships" (1842), then to "old or discarded articles of any kind" (1884). Junk food is from 1971; junk art is from 1966; junk mail first attested 1954.
  • noun odds and ends; garbage
Example sentences :
  • Kay brought her to the heap of junk and placed the box on top of it.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 » by Various
  • Where the airplanes and other junk had been, was nothing but a heap of grayish dust.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 » by Various
  • And you keep it stuffed around in every junk hole from the roof to the cellar.
  • Extract from : « Shavings » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • The closet, full of the junk that had been thrown into it, followed.
  • Extract from : « The Cosmic Computer » by Henry Beam Piper
  • "I'm a hustler on a dicker, and a hellion on junk," snapped the boss.
  • Extract from : « Blow The Man Down » by Holman Day
  • I dug it out of the junk that was in my little workshop and sold it to him.
  • Extract from : « By Proxy » by Gordon Randall Garrett
  • It was Scott's testimony that saved Frank from the junk pile.
  • Extract from : « The Love of Frank Nineteen » by David Carpenter Knight
  • With the junk fixtures you got it here I'm ashamed to bring a customer into the place at all.
  • Extract from : « Elkan Lubliner, American » by Montague Glass
  • The first ones to make up after the fuss were Jink and Junk.
  • Extract from : « Rootabaga Stories » by Carl Sandburg
  • Blunk, Swunk and Junk said, “He wants a straight hat put on crooked.”
  • Extract from : « Rootabaga Stories » by Carl Sandburg

Synonyms for junk

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