Synonyms of the word rubbish


RUBBISHAPPLESAUCE - ASSAIL - ASSAULT - ATTACK - CODSWALLOP - DRIVEL - FOLDEROL - GARBAGE - ROUND - SCRAP - SNIPE - TRASH - TRIPE - TRUMPERY - WASTE - WISH-WASH

rubbish

  • adj. (chiefly Australia, New Zealand, Britain, colloquial) Exceedingly bad; awful; terrible; crappy.
  • interj. (colloquial) Expresses that something is exceedingly bad, terrible or awful.
  • interj. Expresses that what was recently said is untruth or nonsense.
  • n. Garbage, junk, refuse, waste.
  • n. Nonsense.
  • n. (archaic) ruins or debris of buildings.
  • v. To denounce, to criticise, to denigrate, to disparage.

applesauce

  • n. (US) Apple sauce.
  • n. (slang, US, dated, 1920s) Nonsense, balderdash, bunk, piffle.
  • interj. (slang, US, dated) nonsense!

assail

  • v. To attack violently using words or force.

assault

  • n. A violent onset or attack with physical means, for example blows, weapons, etc.
  • n. A violent onset or attack with moral weapons, for example words, arguments, appeals, and the like.
  • n. (criminal law) An attempt to commit battery: a violent attempt, or willful effort with force or violence,…
  • n. (singular only, law) The crime whose action is such an attempt.
  • n. (tort law) An act that causes someone to apprehend imminent bodily harm.
  • n. (singular only, law) The tort whose action is such an act.
  • n. (fencing) A non-competitive combat between two fencers.
  • v. To attack, threaten or harass.

attack

  • n. An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of opponent or enemy.
  • n. An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by…
  • n. A time in which one attacks. The offence of a battle.
  • n. (cricket) Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
  • n. (volleyball) Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane…
  • n. (lacrosse) The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
  • n. (medicine) The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
  • n. An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
  • n. (music) The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that…
  • n. (audio) The amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level…
  • v. (transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.
  • v. (transitive) To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines,…
  • v. (transitive) To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
  • v. (transitive) To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
  • v. (transitive, cricket) To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
  • v. (intransitive, cricket) To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
  • v. (intransitive, cricket) To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
  • v. (soccer) To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
  • v. (cycling) To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.

codswallop

  • n. (Britain, slang) Senseless talk or writing; nonsense; rubbish.
  • interj. (Britain, slang) Used to express disbelief: nonsense!; rubbish!

drivel

  • n. senseless talk; nonsense.
  • n. saliva, drool.
  • n. (obsolete) A fool; an idiot.
  • n. (obsolete) A servant; a drudge.
  • v. To have saliva drip from the mouth; to drool.
  • v. To talk nonsense; to talk senselessly.
  • v. To be weak or foolish; to dote.

folderol

  • n. (uncountable) Nonsense or foolishness.
  • n. (countable) A decorative object of little value; a trifle or gewgaw.

garbage

  • n. (obsolete) The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.
  • n. Food waste material of any kind.
  • n. Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
  • n. A place or receptacle for waste material.
  • n. Nonsense; gibberish.
  • n. (often attributively) Something or someone worthless.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To eviscerate.

round

  • adj. (physical) Shape.
  • adj. Complete, whole, not lacking.
  • adj. (of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
  • adj. (linguistics) Pronounced with the lips drawn together.
  • adj. Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing.
  • adj. Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.
  • adj. Consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct.
  • adj. Large in magnitude.
  • n. A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
  • n. A circular or repetitious route.
  • n. A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
  • n. A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
  • n. A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
  • n. A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
  • n. One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
  • n. (art) A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
  • n. A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical…
  • n. (sports) One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing…
  • n. (sports) A stage in a competition.
  • n. (sports) In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.
  • n. (engineering, drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for…
  • n. A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary,…
  • n. (butchery) The hindquarters of a bovine.
  • n. (dated) A rung, as of a ladder.
  • n. A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
  • n. A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance;…
  • n. A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated…
  • n. A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
  • n. A circular dance.
  • n. Rotation, as in office; succession.
  • n. A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
  • n. An assembly; a group; a circle.
  • n. A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
  • n. (archaic) A vessel filled, as for drinking.
  • n. (nautical) A round-top.
  • n. A round of beef.
  • prep. (rare in US) Alternative form of around.
  • adv. Alternative form of around.
  • v. (transitive) To shape something into a curve.
  • v. (intransitive) To become shaped into a curve.
  • v. (with "out") To finish; to complete; to fill out.
  • v. (intransitive) To approximate a number, especially a decimal number by the closest whole number.
  • v. (transitive) To turn past a boundary.
  • v. (intransitive) To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).
  • v. (transitive, baseball) To advance to home plate.
  • v. (transitive) To go round, pass, go past.
  • v. To encircle; to encompass.
  • v. To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To go round, as a guard; to make the rounds.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To go or turn round; to wheel about.
  • v. (intransitive, archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To speak in a low tone; whisper; speak…
  • v. (transitive, archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To address or speak to in a whisper, utter…
  • n. (archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A whisper; whispering.
  • n. (archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Discourse; song.

scrap

  • n. A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
  • n. (usually in the plural) Leftover food.
  • n. Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
  • n. (ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated to the Norte gang.
  • n. The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
  • v. (transitive) To discard.
  • v. (transitive, of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
  • v. (intransitive) To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
  • v. (transitive) To dispose of at a scrapyard.
  • v. (transitive) To make into scrap.
  • n. A fight, tussle, skirmish.
  • v. to fight.

snipe

  • n. Any of various limicoline game birds of the genera Gallinago, Lymnocryptes and Coenocorypha in the family…
  • n. A fool; a blockhead.
  • n. A shot fired from a concealed place.
  • n. (naval slang) A member of the engineering department on a ship.
  • v. (intransitive) To hunt snipe.
  • v. (intransitive) To shoot at individuals from a concealed place.
  • v. (intransitive) (by extension) To shoot with a sniper rifle.
  • v. (transitive) To watch a timed online auction and place a winning bid against (the current high bidder)…
  • v. (transitive) To nose (a log) to make it drag or slip easily in skidding.
  • n. (slang) A cigarette butt.
  • n. An animated promotional logo during a television show.
  • n. A strip of copy announcing some late breaking news or item of interest, typically placed in a print advertisement…
  • n. A bottle of wine measuring 0.1875 liters, one fourth the volume of a standard bottle; a quarter bottle…
  • n. A sharp, clever answer; sarcasm.
  • v. (intransitive) To make malicious, underhand remarks or attacks.

trash

  • n. (chiefly US) Useless things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
  • n. A container into which things are discarded.
  • n. Something worthless or of poor quality.
  • n. (slang, derogatory) People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash…
  • n. (fandom slang, humorous, uncountable) A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.
  • n. (computing) Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered…
  • n. A collar, leash, or halter used to restrain a dog in pursuing game.
  • v. (US) To discard.
  • v. (US) To make into a mess.
  • v. (US) To beat soundly in a game.
  • v. (US) To disrespect someone or something.
  • v. To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.
  • v. To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush.
  • v. To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain;…

tripe

  • n. The lining of the large stomach of ruminating animals, when prepared for food.
  • n. The entrails; hence, humorously or in contempt, the belly; -- generally used in the plural.
  • n. (chiefly plural) Something disparaged as valueless, especially written works and popular entertainment…
  • interj. (pejorative) That (what has just been said) is untrue.

trumpery

  • n. Worthless finery; bric-a-brac or junk.
  • n. Nonsense.
  • n. (obsolete) Deceit; fraud.
  • adj. Gaudy but of no value.

waste

  • n. Excess of material, useless by-products or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
  • n. Excrement or urine.
  • n. A waste land; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
  • n. A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
  • n. A large tract of uncultivated land.
  • n. (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays…
  • n. A vast expanse of water.
  • n. A disused mine or part of one.
  • n. The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
  • n. Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
  • n. Gradual loss or decay.
  • n. A decaying of the body by disease; wasting away.
  • n. (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; See "to lay waste".
  • n. (law) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the…
  • n. (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the…
  • adj. (now rare) Uncultivated, uninhabited.
  • adj. Barren; desert.
  • adj. Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.
  • adj. Superfluous; needless.
  • adj. Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
  • adj. Unfortunate; disappointing.
  • v. (transitive) to devastate, destroy.
  • v. (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
  • v. (transitive) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to…
  • v. (intransitive) Gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
  • v. (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
  • v. (law) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences,…

wish-wash

  • n. (archaic) Any weak, thin drink.

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