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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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The meaning of DROSS is the scum or unwanted material that forms on the surface of molten metal. How to use dross in a sentence. Did you know?
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.
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. No one wants it, and it's harmful if it stays.
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).
Dross definition: waste matter; refuse.. See examples of DROSS used in a sentence.
If you describe something as dross, you mean that it is of very poor quality or has no value.
Dross definition: The scum that forms on the surface of molten metal as a result of oxidation.
