Woeful vs Garbage - What's the difference?
woeful | garbage |
Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity.
Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction.
wretched; paltry; poor
The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.
Food waste material of any kind.
Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
A place or receptacle for waste material.
Nonsense; gibberish.
(often, attributively) Something or someone worthless.
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(obsolete) To eviscerate.
* 1674 , , ''The Passenger Pigeon , 1907, The Outing Publishing Company):
As an adjective woeful
is full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity.As a noun garbage is
the bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.As a verb garbage is
(obsolete) to eviscerate.woeful
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- How many woeful widows left to bow / To sad disgrace! — Daniel.
- a woeful event
- a woeful lack of restraint
- What woeful stuff this madrigal would be! — Pope.
Synonyms
* See alsogarbage
English
Alternative forms
* garbidgeNoun
(-)- Garbage is collected on Tuesdays; rubbish on Fridays
- The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.
- He threw the newspaper into the garbage .
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- Forget about that garbage advice to “act natural”.
Synonyms
* junk, refuse, rubbish, trash, waste * See alsoAntonyms
* artifact, asset, catch, find, prize, recyclable, resource, treasure, valuableDerived terms
* garbage bag * garbage bin * garbage can * garbage collect * garbage collector * garbage collection * garbage disposal * garbage dump * * garbage man * garbage mitt * garbage scow * garbage time * garbage truck * garbo * garbologistVerb
(garbag)- I have bought at Boston a dozen Pidgeons ready pulled and garbidged for three pence.