Synonyms of slush

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noun

ˈsləsh 

1

as in garbage

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

how can you stand to read that slush in the tabloids?

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

2

as in mud

soft wet earth

he paused in front of the doorway to wipe the slush off of his boots before going inside

Synonyms & Similar Words

• mud
• sludge
• muck
• gravel
• sand
• ooze
• slime
• mire
• dirt
• silt
• slop
• guck
• clay
• soil
• loam
• gumbo
• humus

3

as in corn

something (as a work of literature or music) that is too sentimental

a musical that has been reviled as pure slush by the New York critics

Synonyms & Similar Words

• corn
• sludge
• goo
• mush
• rubbish
• soap opera
• schmaltz
• tripe
• claptrap
• drivel

4

as in cheese

that which is of low quality or worth

discovered that slush is what publishers want, so that's exactly what she'll write

didn't want to put in the effort to produce anything better than slush

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

slush

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verb

as in to spray

Related Words

• spray
• slop
• water
• squirt
• sprinkle
• steep
• bathe
• wash
• drown
• douse
• saturate
• impregnate
• drench
• soak
• splatter
• sop
• spatter
• splash
• souse
• bespatter
• dash
• plash

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of slush

Noun

The 55-mile route started in Chicago’s Jackson Park — amid snow and slush — and ended in Evanston. — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 23 May 2026

Part of every production assistant’s job is to help their boss thin the screenplay slush pile. — Literary Hub, 19 May 2026

Verb

Beneath the dossier’s journey from media obsession to slush pile lies a broader and more troubling story. — New York Times, 15 May 2021

Normally at this time of year lake effect is cut dramatically because of ice cover on the Great Lakes and open water slushing up. — Mark Torregrossa | [email protected], cleveland, 12 Feb. 2020