Thesaurus:remainder

Thesaurus

remainder

English

Noun

Sense: whatever remains after something else has been removed; thing remaining

Synonyms

• lave (archaic or dialectal)
• leavings
• leftover
• ort
• relic
• remainder
• remains
• remanent
• remnant
• residue
• residuum
• rest
• rump

Antonyms

• adjunct    [⇒ thesaurus]
• decrement    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• debris    [⇒ thesaurus]
• deposit
• dross
• gubbins (obsolete)
• leftovers
• others
• scraps
• trash    [⇒ thesaurus]
•   —
• excess    [⇒ thesaurus]
• overplus
• oversum (obsolete)
• surplus
•   —
• draff
• dregs
• grounds
• grout (rare)
• lees
• sediment
• settlings
•   —
• ash
• ember
• cinder

Hypernyms

• quantity    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Thesaurus:residual

Further reading

• “40. remainder” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “remainder” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.