wastebasket

Speech parts

1. wastebasket - Noun

2. wastebasket - Verb

Meaning

A basket used in offices, libraries, etc., as a receptacle for waste paper.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

box basket dump receptacle bin dustbin garbage can compost heap ashcan ashbin ash bin dumpster papermaking circular file recycle bin
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Antonyms

base whole reserve middle core root
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Hypernyms

container

Phrases with the word

in the wastebasket

Examples

The most important tool of the theoretical physicist is his wastebasket. Albert Einstein

I know as a writer how valuable a tool is the wastebasket. Perhaps God throws away many experiments before He finds the right expression. Perhaps we are the discards - or we could be the part He keeps. This mystery is what keeps us all going, to see what happens in the next chapter. Isaac Bashevis Singer

Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead. Erma Bombeck

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. Margaret Atwood

Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket. Robert Orben

I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket. Imogen Cunningham

Close letter words and terms

waste-way waste-yard wasteable wastebasket taxon wastebin wasteboard