jetsam
The word “jetsam” has 2 syllables: jet-sam
It's pronounced as /ˈdʒɛtˌsəm/
What is synonym and antonym for jetsam?
In the thesaurus, “jetsam” has 36 synonyms.
Here are synonyms for jetsam along with examples of usage in sentences.
Synonyms for jetsam
- ashes
- cargo
- castaway
- castoffs
- chaff
- deadwood
- debris
- detritus
- dogie
- dross
- dust
- flotsam
- foundling
- garbage
- junk
- leavings
- litter
- odds and ends
- orphan
- ragamuffin
- refuse
- remains
- remnant
- residue
- riffraff
- rubbish
- rubble
- ruins
- scrap
- sea-drift
- stray
- trash
- urchin
- waste
- wreck
- wreckage
Meanings of jetsam
- noun
- Articles thrown overboard from a ship or boat in order to lighten the load of a ship in distress.
- (by extension) discarded odds and ends.
Example Sentences
- The beachcomber discovered various pieces of jetsam washed ashore after the storm.
- Maritime law dictates the salvage rights of jetsam found adrift at sea.
- The ship's crew carefully cataloged the jetsam recovered from the wreck.
- Environmental activists organize beach cleanups to remove jetsam and protect marine ecosystems.
- Historians study the jetsam from shipwrecks to gain insight into past trade routes and cultures.
On this page you'll find 36 synonyms or another words to jetsam, such as: ashes, cargo, castaway, castoffs, chaff, deadwood, debris.
Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.
Related Words
deadwood
- castoff
- chaff
- crud
- cull
- debris
- detritus
- discard
- dispensable
- dreck
- drek
- dross
- dump
- dust
- effluvia
- effluvium
- excess baggage
- excessive
- expendable
- extraneous
- flotsam
- garbage
- hand-me-down
- hanger-on
- inessential
- insignificant
- jetsam
- junk
- lagniappe
- litter
- lumber
- nothing
- odds and ends
- offal
- offscouring
- peripheral
- petty
- raffle
- refuse
- reject
- remains
- riffraff
- rubbish
- rubble
- ruins
- scrap
- scrap heap
- sewage
- slop
- spare
- spare tire
- spilth
- straw
- superfluity
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- swill
- third wheel
- throwaway
- trash
- trivial
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- truck
- trumpery
- two bits
- unimportant
- unnecessary
- wash
- waste
- wreckage
debris
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- chaff
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- deadwood
- detritus
- discard
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- dregs
- drek
- dross
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- dust
- effluvia
- effluvium
- flotsam
- fragments
- garbage
- hand-me-down
- jetsam
- junk
- leavings
- litter
- lumber
- nothing
- odds and ends
- offal
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- reject
- remains
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- rubbish
- rubble
- ruins
- scrap
- scrap heap
- sewage
- slop
- spilth
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- trumpery
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- wreck
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effluvia
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- chaff
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- debris
- detritus
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- dross
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- exhalation
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- jetsam
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- litter
- lumber
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- sewage
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effluvium
- castoff
- chaff
- crud
- cull
- deadwood
- debris
- detritus
- discard
- dreck
- drek
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- dust
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- flotsam
- garbage
- hand-me-down
- jetsam
- junk
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- lumber
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- refuse
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- scrap
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- sewage
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- truck
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- wash
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garbage
- absurdity
- absurdness
- applesauce
- asininity
- balderdash
- baloney
- beans
- bilge
- bits and pieces
- blah
- blah-blah
- blarney
- blather
- blatherskite
- blither
- boloney
- bosh
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- buncombe
- bunk
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- castoff
- chaff
- claptrap
- codswallop
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- deadwood
- debris
- detritus
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- double-talk
- dreck
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- dross
- dump
- dust
- effluvia
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- falderal
- fatuity
- fiddle
- fiddle-faddle
- fiddlesticks
- filth
- flannel
- flapdoodle
- flotsam
- folderol
- folly
- foolery
- foolishness
- fudge
- gas
- greek
- guff
- hand-me-down
- hocus-pocus
- hogwash
- hoity-toity
- hokeypokey
- hokum
- hoodoo
- hooey
- horsefeathers
- hot air
- humbug
- humbuggery
- idiocy
- imbecility
- inaneness
- inanity
- insanity
- jazz
- jetsam
- junk
- kookiness
- litter
- lumber
- lunacy
- madness
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- malarky
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- moonshine
- muck
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- nonsense
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- odds and ends
- offal
- offscouring
- piffle
- poppycock
- punk
- raffle
- refuse
- reject
- remains
- riffraff
- rigamarole
- rigmarole
- rot
- rubbish
- rubble
- ruins
- scrap
- scrap heap
- scrapings
- senselessness
- sewage
- silliness
- slop
- slush
- spilth
- straw
- stupidity
- sweepings
- swill
- taradiddle
- tarradiddle
- throwaway
- tomfoolery
- tommyrot
- tosh
- trash
- truck
- trumpery
- twaddle
- two bits
- wash
- waste
- witlessness
- wreckage