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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, effluvium (also effluvia), garbage, junk, litter, offal, offscouring, raffle, refuse, riffraff, rubbish, scrap, spilth, 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

nothing, straw, two bits
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

applesauce [slang], balderdash, baloney (also boloney), beans, bilge, blah (also blah-blah), blarney, blather, blatherskite, blither, bosh, bull [slang], bunk, bunkum (or buncombe), claptrap, codswallop [British], crapola [slang], crock, drivel, drool, fiddle, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flannel [British], flapdoodle, folderol (also falderal), folly, foolishness, fudge, garbage, guff, hogwash, hokeypokey, hokum, hoodoo, hooey, horsefeathers [slang], humbug, humbuggery, jazz, malarkey (also malarky), moonshine, muck, nerts [slang], nonsense, nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, senselessness, silliness, slush, stupidity, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), tommyrot, tosh, trumpery, twaddle
Words Related to trash

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

absurdness, craziness, madness, senselessness, witlessness

hoity-toity, monkey business, monkeyshine(s), shenanigan(s), tomfoolery

gas, hot air, rigmarole (also rigamarole)

double-talk, greek, 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, rabblement, ragtag and bobtail, riffraff, rout, scum, tag, rag, and bobtail (or tagrag and bobtail), unwashed
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

A-list, aristocracy, elite, gentry, quality, 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

cheese, crapola [slang], dreck (also drek), junk, muck, rubbish, sleaze, slop, slush, tripe
Words Related to trash

camp, kitsch

claptrap, humbug, nonsense

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

mess, muddle, shambles

trash

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of trash

1 to criticize harshly and usually publicly
  • a stand-up comedian who humorously trashes the motley crew of people who bug her
Synonyms of trash

abuse, assail, attack, bash, belabor, blast, castigate, excoriate, jump (on), lambaste (or lambast), potshot, savage, scathe, slam, vituperate
Words Related to trash

berate, harangue, harass, harry, revile, scold, whip

blaspheme, curse, execrate, imprecate, profane

affront, insult, slur

asperse, bad-mouth, belittle, blackguard, disparage, put down

libel, slander, traduce, vilify

chastise, chide, criticize, lace (into), rebuke, reprimand, reproof

fulminate, lash (out)
Phrases Synonymous with trash

beat up on, light into, sail into, tie into
Near Antonyms of trash

acclaim, commend, compliment, hail, laud, praise
2 to deliberately cause the damage or destruction of another's property
  • someone had broken into the gym and trashed the decorations for the dance
Synonyms of trash

deface, vandalize
Words Related to trash

desecrate, violate

graffiti, tag

bang up, break, damage, harm, hurt, impair, mar, shatter, spoil

annihilate, demolish, destroy, devastate, ravage, raven, raze, ruin, scourge, smash, tear down, total, waste, wipe out, wrack, wreck

sabotage

depredate, despoil, loot, maraud, pillage, plunder, ransack, sack, spoliate
Near Antonyms of trash

conserve, preserve, protect, save

salvage

build, rebuild
3 to express scornfully one's low opinion of
  • a club member who trashes every idea that isn't hers
Synonyms of trash

bad-mouth, belittle, cry down, decry, denigrate, deprecate, depreciate, derogate, diminish, dis (also diss) [slang], discount, dismiss, disparage, kiss off, minimize, play down, poor-mouth, put down, run down, talk down, trash-talk, vilipend, write off
Words Related to trash

discommend

abuse, scold

disapprove (of), dislike

censure, condemn, criticize, denounce, reprehend, reprobate

asperse, defame, malign, rip, slander, slur, traduce, vilify

discredit, disgrace
Phrases Synonymous with trash

dump on
Near Antonyms of trash

approve, countenance, endorse (also indorse), favor, recommend, sanction

commend, compliment, eulogize
Antonyms of trash

acclaim, applaud, exalt, extol (also extoll), glorify, laud, magnify, praise
4 to take sudden, violent action against
  • gangs of young punks would trash the encampment of homeless men just for sport
Synonyms of trash

assail, assault, attack, beset, bushwhack, charge, descend (on or upon), go in (on), jump (on), pounce (on or upon), raid, rush, set on, sic (also sick), storm, strike, turn (on)
Words Related to trash

bum-rush, gang up (on), mob, swarm

mug, rob

ambuscade, ambush, surprise (also surprize), waylay

blitz, bomb, bombard, nuke

barrage, cannon, cannonade

bang away (at), batter, buffet, plaster

beleaguer, besiege, press

harry, loot, pillage, plunder, ravage, sack

foray, invade, overrun

envelop, flank
Phrases Synonymous with trash

beat up on, fly at, go at, light into, pitch into, round on, set at, set upon, tear into
Near Antonyms of trash

cover, defend, guard, protect, secure, shield

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