flotsam

Noun

Meaning

Alt. of Flotson

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

jetsam castaway base driftwood balance bit waste cargo refuse debris garbage wreck allowance litter scrap
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Antonyms

base basis whole develop middle core
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Hypernyms

wreckage

Phrases with the word

flotsam and jetsam

Examples

We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures that we've made up, made of certain different flotsam from pop culture and certain different personas that are in style. Gillian Schieber Flynn

Flotsam floats when all is sunk. Jetsam thrown isn't just junk. Coughs and colds and bright red sores Waiting for us, so bend yer oars! Garth Nix

Flotsam from his childhood are rising through his attention. He's remembering the skin of an apple, bursting with nebulae, a look into curved reddening space. Thomas Pynchon

But here we have it – there are those squatters at Success, on the East Coast of Demerara, who insist they just don’t have anywhere to go to put their heads down but those flimsy hovels they created out of flotsam and jetsam seemingly washed ashore. Source: Internet

But if Phobos is made of Martian flotsam from a massive impact shortly after the planet’s birth, then the moon has retained the earliest memories of Mars. Source: Internet

Hang them on doors or walls to store shoes, umbrellas, dog leashes, all the flotsam and jetsam of life. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

flotilla of battleships flotilla of war vessels flotillin flotsam and jetsam flotson flotten