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

This comes at the expense of no movement in the wrist, but to be fair, having the lightsaber pointed in any other direction would look rubbish. — Matt Gardner, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

Only construction waste will be accepted at the landfill such as, brush and rubbish, concrete, brick, rock, wood, paper, plastics, cardboard and roofing shingles and tiles. — Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 July 2026

So where does the rubbish come from? — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 8 June 2026

With no petrol to run dustbin trucks, rubbish is being burnt in the streets. — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 31 May 2026