Definition for Detritus:

• Substance resulting from destruction of a part.

Synonyms for Detritus:

• n.

  •
  • e-waste,
  • ruin,
  • landfill.
  •debris (noun)
  • scree,
  • Leavings,
  • rubble,
  • Grains,
  • shavings,
  • fragments,
  • deposit,
  • sediment.
  •detritus (noun)
  • junk,
  • dust.
  •garbage (noun)
  • bits and piece,
  • bits pieces,
  • bits piece,
  • drecks,
  • odds ends.
  •remainder (noun)
  • carry overs,
  • overpluses,
  • carry-overs,
  • ex-cesses,
  • ex-cess,
  • bottom barrel,
  • ex cess.
  •remains (noun)
  • scraps.
  •residue (noun)
  • artifact,
  • slag,
  • leftovers,
  • afterimage,
  • precipitate,
  • scum,
  • remnant,
  • chaff,
  • Filings,
  • grounds,
  • vestige,
  • afterglow,
  • sawdust,
  • residue,
  • dregs.
  •substance (noun)
  • detritus.
  •waste (noun)
  • despoilment,
  • refuse,
  • slop,
  • offal,
  • effluent,
  • leakage,
  • Dejecta,
  • waste,
  • decay.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • debris,
  • dreck,
  • dross,
  • ecology,
  • garbage,
  • hangover,
  • litter,
  • material,
  • oddment,
  • overplus,
  • remainder,
  • remains,
  • residuum,
  • rubbish,
  • scrap,
  • stuff,
  • trash,
  • carry over,
  • Sweepings,
  • ruins,
  • residua,
  • scrapings,
  • carryovers,
  • carryover,
  • Scatterings,
  • bits and pieces,
  • bottom of barrel,
  • carry-over.

Paraphrases for Detritus:

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    scrap.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    Detrital.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    rubble.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    rubbish.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    debris, litter, garbage, trash, wreckage.

Detritus Sentence Examples:

• The long narrow bed of the lake was furrowed by a glacier that once debouched here from the mountains to the west, and through the gravel and detritus that surround it the melting snows and rain are filtered till the water is fit for the Olympian deities.

• This detritus has subsequently been taken up by the waters, which have then deposited it in the strata which it still covers.

Homophones for Detritus:

• deer tick, dry-dock, dry dock, darts, diuretic, dirty dog, dredge, diarrhetic, dorothea dix, dirty joke, Dorothy Dix, dardic, drydock, drudge, diarrhoetic.

Hyponym for Detritus:

• n.

  • substance
    stuff, material.