rubbish | Definition of rubbish

Synonyms and Antonyms of rubbish

1 discarded or useless material

it's illegal to throw rubbish out of your car on the highway

Synonyms of rubbish

chaff, deadwood, debris, dreck (also drek), dross, dust, effluvium (also effluvia), garbage, junk, litter, offal, offscouring, raffle, refuse, riffraff, scrap, spilth, trash, truck, waste

Words Related to rubbish

crud, sewage, slop, swill, wash

detritus, remains, rubble, ruins

dump, scrap heap

lumber, odds and ends, trumpery

flotsam, jetsam, wreckage

castoff, cull, discard, hand-me-down, reject, throwaway

nothing, straw, two bits

Near Antonyms of rubbish

catch, gem, goody (or goodie), jewel, pearl, plum, prize, treasure, treasure trove, trove, valuable

booty, find, salvage

2 that which is of low quality or worth

regarded most romance novels as the lowest form of literary rubbish

Synonyms of rubbish

cheese, crapola [slang], dreck (also drek), junk, muck, sleaze, slop, slush, trash, tripe

Words Related to rubbish

claptrap, humbug, nonsense

bomb, clinker, clunker, dud, lemon, stinker, turkey

mess, muddle, shambles

3 language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense

you're obviously no economist because what you're saying is absolute rubbish

Synonyms of rubbish

applesauce [slang], balderdash, baloney (also boloney), beans, bilge, blah (also blah-blah), blarney, blather, blatherskite, blither, bosh, bull [slang], bunk, bunkum (or buncombe), claptrap, codswallop [British], crapola [slang], crock, drivel, drool, fiddle, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flannel [British], flapdoodle, folderol (also falderal), folly, foolishness, fudge, garbage, guff, hogwash, hokeypokey, hokum, hoodoo, hooey, horsefeathers [slang], humbug, humbuggery, jazz, malarkey (also malarky), moonshine, muck, nerts [slang], nonsense, nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, senselessness, silliness, slush, stupidity, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), tommyrot, tosh, trash