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

Envelopes heavy with manuscripts arrived at the ground-floor entrance, piling up on the dining table by the window, which doubled as a slush pile for the independent poetry press Hanging Loose. —Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 20 Mar. 2026

But the recent snowstorm was unusually bad, making the city exceptionally unpleasant with its grey sidewalks and lingering slush. —Ascend Agency, New York Daily News, 16 Mar. 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

Kevin Nye attended the Juneau Trump rally, where vehicles, some decked with U.S. flags or banners supporting Trump, lined up Sunday to parade through town as the streets turned to slush from the snow and rain. —Becky Bohrer, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Nov. 2020