Dictionary Definition
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛɡz
Noun
dregs plural (the singular form dreg is far less common, the phrase to the last dreg still has currency)Synonyms
Translations
settled sediment
the worst and lowest
Extensive Definition
Dregs may refer to:
- Audio Dregs, a jazz fusion band.
- Dixie Dregs, an independent music label.
- Sediment in wine.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
alluvion, alluvium, ash, bones, canaille, cattle, chaff, children of darkness,
cinder, clinker, culm, deadwood, deposit, deposition, deposits, diluvium, dishwater, draff, dregs of society, dross, dust, ember, feces, filings, froth, garbage, gash, grounds, hogwash, husks, leavings, lees, limbs of Satan, loess, losers, masses, mob, moraine, offal, offscourings, offscum, orts, outcasts, pariahs, parings, potsherds, precipitate, precipitation, proletariat, rabble, raff, rags, ragtag and bobtail, raspings, refuse, remains, residue, riffraff, rubbish, scoria, scourings, scrap iron,
scraps, scum, sediment, settlings, shards, shavings, silt, sinter, slack, slag, slop, slops, smut, sons of Belial, sons of men,
soot, sordes, stubble, sublimate, sweepings, swill, swinish multitude, tares, the bad, the evil, the
reprobate, the unrighteous, the wicked, trash, unwashed, vermin, wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper, weeds