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trash

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of trash

1 discarded or useless material
  • The neighbor's dog was rooting around in our trash this morning.
Synonyms of trash

chaff, deadwood, debris, dreck (also drek), dross, dust, garbage, junk, litter, offal, refuse, riffraff, rubbish, scrap, truck, waste
Words Related to trash

crud, sewage, slop, swill, wash

detritus, remains, rubble, ruins

dump, scrap heap

lumber, odds and ends, trumpery

flotsam, jetsam, wreckage

castoff, cull, discard, hand-me-down, reject, throwaway
Near Antonyms of trash

catch, gem, goody (or goodie), jewel, pearl, plum, prize, treasure, treasure trove, trove, valuable

booty, find, salvage
2 language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense
  • Don't talk trash to me!
Synonyms of trash

balderdash, baloney (also boloney), beans, bilge, blarney, blather, bosh, bull [slang], bunk, bunkum (or buncombe), claptrap, drivel, folderol (also falderal), folly, foolishness, fudge, hogwash, hokeypokey, hokum, hooey, humbug, humbuggery, jazz, malarkey (also malarky), moonshine, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, rot, rubbish, senselessness, silliness, stupidity, tommyrot, trumpery, twaddle
Words Related to trash

absurdity, asininity, foolery, idiocy, imbecility, inaneness, inanity, insanity, kookiness, lunacy

absurdness, craziness, madness, senselessness, witlessness

monkey business, monkeyshine(s), shenanigan(s), tomfoolery

gas, hot air, rigmarole (also rigamarole)

double-talk, hocus-pocus
Near Antonyms of trash

levelheadedness, rationality, reasonability, reasonableness, sensibleness

common sense, horse sense, sense

discernment, judgment (or judgement), wisdom
3 people looked down upon as ignorant and of the lowest class
  • snooty people who thought that we were trash because we were in the cleaning business
Synonyms of trash

proletariat, rabble, ragtag and bobtail, riffraff, rout, scum
Words Related to trash

dregs

commoners, commons, herd, hoi polloi, masses, millions, mob, multitude, people, plebeians, populace, public, rank and file

bourgeoisie, middle class, working class
Near Antonyms of trash

elect, establishment

gentlefolk (also gentlefolks), nobility, peerage
Antonyms of trash

aristocracy, elite, gentry, society, upper class, upper crust
4 that which is of low quality or worth
  • The souvenirs in the gift shop are nothing but trash.
Synonyms of trash

junk, rubbish, tripe
Words Related to trash

claptrap, humbug, nonsense

bomb, clinker, clunker, dud, lemon, stinker, turkey

mess, muddle, shambles

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