Word Meanings - SWEEPINGS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Things collected by sweeping; rubbish; as, the sweepings of a street.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SWEEPINGS)

• Refuse
• Offal
• scum
• dregs
• sediment
• recrement
• sweepings
• trash
• offscourings
• debris
• remains
• dross

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SWEEPINGS)

• Grant
• afford
• yield
• concede
• acquiesce

Related words: (words related to SWEEPINGS)

• DROSS
  1. The scum or refuse matter which is thrown off, or falls from, metals in smelting the ore, or in the process of melting; recrement. 2. Rust of metals. Addison. 3. Waste matter; any worthless matter separated from the better part; leavings;
• YIELDABLE
  Disposed to yield or comply. -- Yield"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
• YIELDANCE
  1. The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. Bp. Hall. 2. The act of yielding; concession. South.
• TRASHILY
  In a trashy manner.
• ACQUIESCENTLY
  In an acquiescent manner.
• TRASHY
  Like trash; containing much trash; waste; rejected; worthless; useless; as, a trashy novel.
• YIELDING
  Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper. Yielding and paying , the initial words of that clause in leases in which the rent to be paid by the lessee is mentioned and reserved. Burrill. Syn. --
• ACQUIESCE
  1. To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent (usually implying previous opposition or discontent); to accept or consent by silence or by omitting to object; -- followed by in, formerly also by with
• SEDIMENTARY
  Of or pertaining to sediment; formed by sediment; containing matter that has subsided. Sedimentary rocks. See Aqueous rocks, under Aqueous.
• OFFAL
  1. The rejected or waste parts of a butchered animal. 2. A dead body; carrion. Shak. 3. That which is thrown away as worthless or unfit for use; refuse; rubbish. The off als of other profession. South.
• YIELDER
  One who yields. Shak.
• ACQUIESCENCY
  The quality of being acquiescent; acquiescence.
• DROSSEL
  A slut; a hussy; a drazel. Warner.
• RECREMENTITIAL
  Of the nature of a recrement. See Recrement,2 . "Recrementitial fluids." Dunglison.
• RECREMENT
  1. Superfluous matter separated from that which is useful; dross; scoria; as, the recrement of ore. Excrement. A substance secreted from the blood and again absorbed by it.
• AFFORDMENT
  Anything given as a help; bestowal.
• SEDIMENT
  The material of which sedimentary rocks are formed. (more info) 1. The matter which subsides to the bottom, frrom water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs.
• DROSSY
  Of, pertaining to, resembling, dross; full of dross; impure; worthless. " Drossy gold." Dryden. "Drossy rhymes." Donne. -- Dross"i*ness, n.
• YIELDLESS
  Without yielding; unyielding.
• ACQUIESCENT
  Resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit; assentive; as, an acquiescent policy.
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• IMMIGRANT
  One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant. Syn. -- See Emigrant.
• FLAGRANT
  1. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker. 2. Actually in
• INTEGRANT
  Making part of a whole; necessary to constitute an entire thing; integral. Boyle. All these are integrant parts of the republic. Burke. Integrant parts, or particles, of bodies, those smaller particles into which a body may be reduced without loss
• VAGRANTNESS
  State of being vagrant; vagrancy.
• FRAGRANT
  fragrance: cf. OF. fragrant. Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume. Fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers. Milton. Syn. -- Sweet-smelling; odorous; odoriferous;
• MIGRANT
  Migratory. Sir T. Browne. -- n.