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- Dictionarydross/drɒs/
noun
- 1. something regarded as worthless; rubbish: "there are bargains if you have the patience to sift through the dross"
- 2. foreign matter, dregs, or mineral waste, in particular scum formed on the surface of molten metal: "alchemists tried to create gold from dross"
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something that has no use or no value: So much of what's on TV is pure dross. We read all the manuscripts but 95 percent are dross. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Rubbish and waste. activated sludge. anti-littering. debris. dejunk. fumes. garbage disposal. gubbins. high-level waste. influent. litter. muck. sewage. sewerage. shavings.
dross. noun. ˈdräs. ˈdrȯs. Synonyms of dross. 1. metallurgy : the scum or unwanted material that forms on the surface of molten metal. 2. : waste or foreign matter : impurity. 3. : something that is base (see base entry 3 sense 1), trivial, or inferior. There is quite a lot of dross on TV these days. a talent for turning literary dross into gold.
Things that are a total loss — really worthless or damaging — are dross. That gunk between your teeth that comes out when you floss? You could call that dross.
If you describe something as dross, you mean that it is of very poor quality or has no value. [ literary , disapproval ] I go through phases where everything I write is just dross.
noun [ U ] mainly UK us / drɑːs / uk / drɒs / Add to word list. something that has no use or no value: So much of what's on TV is pure dross. We read all the manuscripts but 95 percent are dross. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Rubbish and waste. activated sludge. anti-littering. debris. dejunk. fumes. garbage disposal. gubbins.
1. Waste or impure matter: discarded the dross after recycling the wood pulp. 2. The scum that forms on the surface of molten metal as a result of oxidation. 3. Worthless, commonplace, or trivial matter: "He was wide-awake and his mind worked clearly, purged of all dross" (Vladimir Nabokov). [Middle English dros, from Old English drōs, dregs.]
Dross definition: The scum that forms on the surface of molten metal as a result of oxidation.
Dross definition: waste matter; refuse.. See examples of DROSS used in a sentence.
(specialist) a waste substance, especially that separated from a metal when it is melted. The fire burns away the dross leaving the pure metal. Word Origin Old English drōs (in the sense ‘scum on molten metal’); related to Dutch droesem and German Drusen ‘dregs, lees’. See dross in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Check pronunciation: dross
dross meaning, definition, what is dross: something that is of very low quality: Learn more.
