Synonyms of rubbish

rubbish

noun

ˈrə-bish 

1

as in garbage

discarded or useless material

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• garbage
• debris
• trash
• junk
• dust
• litter
• sewage
• truck
• rubble
• waste
• dross
• offal
• refuse
• deadwood
• chaff
• scrap
• effluvium
• dreck
• raffle
• wreckage
• riffraff
• ruins
• spilth
• detritus
• wash
• lumber
• offscouring
• crud
• dump
• swill
• trumpery
• remains
• flotsam
• discard
• scrap heap
• slop
• straw
• nothing
• jetsam
• reject
• odds and ends
• cull
• throwaway
• two bits
• castoff
• hand-me-down

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• treasure
• prize
• plum
• treasure trove
• gem
• trove
• pearl
• catch
• jewel
• find
• goody
• valuable
• salvage
• booty

2

as in junk

that which is of low quality or worth

regarded most romance novels as the lowest form of literary rubbish

Synonyms & Similar Words

• junk
• cheese
• trash
• muck
• tripe
• camp
• nonsense
• bomb
• lemon
• crapola
• mess
• dreck
• slop
• claptrap
• slush
• kitsch
• sleaze
• humbug
• turkey
• shambles
• stinker
• clinker
• dud
• clunker
• muddle

3

as in nonsense

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 & Similar Words

• garbage
• nonsense
• nuts
• blah
• stupidity
• silliness
• drool
• trash
• muck
• jazz
• twaddle
• guff
• claptrap
• bunk
• bunkum
• absurdity
• hogwash
• tosh
• rot
• balderdash
• beans
• baloney
• piffle
• trumpery
• foolishness
• poppycock
• craziness
• hokum
• bilge
• codswallop
• crock
• punk
• malarkey
• absurdness
• hooey
• insanity
• humbuggery
• bosh
• madness
• fudge
• blither
• drivel
• flapdoodle
• tommyrot
• fiddlesticks
• folderol
• fiddle
• blatherskite
• bull
• blather
• crapola
• hokeypokey
• nerts
• humbug
• blarney
• taradiddle
• folly
• horsefeathers
• fiddle-faddle
• applesauce
• hoodoo
• senselessness
• moonshine
• flannel
• idiocy
• slush
• inanity
• foolery
• tomfoolery
• kookiness
• imbecility
• gas
• greek
• lunacy
• inaneness
• rigmarole
• fatuity
• monkey business
• asininity
• witlessness
• hot air
• shenanigan(s)
• hocus-pocus
• monkeyshine(s)
• hoity-toity
• double-talk

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• rationality
• reasonableness
• sense
• common sense
• sensibleness
• horse sense
• judgment
• reasonability
• wisdom
• levelheadedness
• discernment

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of rubbish

Trash pickup Chris Barnett, Orion Township supervisor, said residents of his community will be allowed to place more bagged trash outside at their next Waste Management pickup day to help handle overflow rubbish from paper plates, etc. — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 12 May 2026

From the Japanese point of view, leaving rubbish piled up in a stadium would be a bother to others. — Stephen Wade, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026

Local villages are actively monitoring the oceans and reefs in their environment, and backlash to a recent plan from a billionaire Australian to build a giant plant to incinerate rubbish in Fiji was loud and well organized, says Singh. — Michelle Duff, HollywoodReporter, 27 Apr. 2026

Stony rubbish, dead trees, the odd corpse in the garden—nothing that couldn’t be absorbed back into the earth. — Caroline Fraser, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026