Litter
Litter noun - Discarded or useless material.
Usage example: if you get caught throwing your litter on the sidewalk, you'll get slapped with a fine
Trash is a synonym for litter (North American) in rubbish topic. In some cases you can use "Trash" instead the word "Litter" as a noun or a verb, when it comes to topics like thing, mess, garbage, slag. informal substitute
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| human | human litter | human trash |
| poor | poor litter | poor trash |
| small | small litter | small trash |
| entire | entire litter | entire trash |
| Other adjectives: real, large, random. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Starting on his first item of picking up litter (because he used to litter a lot), he walks to the trash and comes across his missing lotto ticket.
Source: Series / My Name Is Earl -
A colleague of his said the pair (known as Sundance and Tango - they had different partners) were called 'the litter bugs' by prosecutors because they put so much trash back on the streets.
Source: Amoral Attorney - No one would leave, trash would litter their yard and having thousands of fans hike up to the house just for photos and the like was all too much.
Cite this Source
Trash and Litter. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/litter/trash
Litter & Trash. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/litter/trash>.
Trash or Litter. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/litter/trash.
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