stubble
noun
1 stubble
Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds.
synonyms: chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, straw.
Roget 40:
remainder,
residue;
remains,
remanent,
remnant,
rest,
relic;
leavings,
heeltap†,
odds and ends,
cheesepairings†,
candle ends,
orts†;
residuum;
dregs
etc.
(dirt)
653;
refuse
etc.
(useless)
645;
stubble,
result,
educt†;
fag-end;
ruins,
wreck,
skeleton. ,
stump;
alluvium.
surplus,
overplus†,
excess;
balance,
complement;
superplus†,
surplusage†;
superfluity
etc.
(redundancy)
641;
survival,
survivance†.
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Roget 645:
inutility;
uselessness
etc.
adj.;
inefficacy†,
futility;
ineptitude,
inaptitude;
unsubservience†;
inadequacy
etc.
(insufficiency)
640;
inefficiency,
etc.
(incompetence)
158;
unskillfulness
etc.
699;
disservice;
unfruitfulness
etc.
(unproductiveness)..
169;
labor in vain,
labor lost,
labor of Sisyphus;
lost trouble,
lost labor;
work of Penelope;
sleeveless errand,
wild goose chase,
mere farce.
tautology
etc.
(repetition)
104;
supererogation
etc.
(redundancy)
641.
vanitas vanitatum [Lat.],
vanity,
inanity,
worthlessness,
nugacity†;
triviality
etc.
(unimportance)
643.
caput mortuum [Lat.],
waste paper,
dead letter;
blunt tool.
litter,
rubbish,
junk,
lumber,
odds and ends,
cast-off clothes;
button top;
shoddy;
rags,
orts†,
trash,
refuse,
sweepings,
scourings,
offscourings†,
waste,
rubble,
debris,
detritus;
stubble,
leavings;
broken meat;
dregs
etc.
(dirt)
653;
weeds,
tares;
rubbish heap,
dust hole;
rudera†,
deads†.
fruges consumere natus [Lat.]
[Horace].
etc.
(drone)
683
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Dutch: kaf, stoppel, stro, strohalm, stronk, strootje
Polish: plewa
2 stubble
Short stiff hairs growing on a man's face when he has not shaved for a few days.
Dutch: stoppelbaard, stoppel
Moby thesaurus: Vandyke, afterglow, afterimage, balance, barb, barbel, beard, beaver, bones, bristle, bristles, butt, butt end, candle ends, chaff, culm, deadwood, debris, detritus, dishwater, down, draff, dregs, dust, end, fag end, filings, fossil, garbage, gash, goatee, hogwash, holdover, husks, imperial, leavings, lees, leftovers, odds and ends, offal, offscourings, orts, parings, peach fuzz, potsherds, rags, raspings, refuse, relics, remainder, remains, remnant, residue, residuum, rest, roach, rubbish, ruins, rump, sawdust, scourings, scrap iron, scraps, scum, setula, setule, shadow, shards, shavings, side whiskers, slack, slag, slop, slops, straw, striga, stump, survival, sweepings, swill, tares, trace, tuft, vestige, wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper, weeds, whiskers ... show more.
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