RUBBISH meaning: Waste material; worthless or useless

We found 34 dictionaries that define the word rubbish:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

rubbish: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rubbish: Merriam-Webster
rubbish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
rubbish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
rubbish: Collins English Dictionary
rubbish: Vocabulary.com
Rubbish, rubbish: Wordnik
rubbish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
rubbish: Wiktionary
rubbish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
rubbish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
rubbish: Infoplease Dictionary
Rubbish, rubbish: Dictionary.com
rubbish: Online Etymology Dictionary
rubbish: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Rubbish: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Rubbish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
rubbish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
rubbish: Rhymezone
rubbish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
rubbish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Rubbish (refuse): Britih-American Dictionary
rubbish: FreeDictionary.org
rubbish: Mnemonic Dictionary
rubbish: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)

rubbish: Legal dictionary
rubbish: Financial dictionary
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Computing (1 matching dictionary)

rubbish: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

rubbish: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

rubbish, rubbish, rubbish: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
rubbish: ESL Slang page

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  (chiefly Commonwealth) Refuse, waste, garbage, junk, trash.
▸ noun:  (by extension, chiefly Commonwealth) An item, or items, of low quality.
▸ noun:  (by extension, chiefly Commonwealth) Nonsense.
▸ noun:  (archaic) Debris or ruins of buildings; rubble.
▸ adjective:  (chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, colloquial) Exceedingly bad; awful.
▸ verb:  (transitive, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, colloquial) To criticize, to denigrate, to denounce, to disparage.
▸ verb:  (transitive, Australia, Hong Kong) To litter.

Similar:

trash, applesauce, folderol, trumpery, wish-wash, tripe, rubbage, rubbish bin, dust, junk, more...

Opposite:

trash, garbage

Types:

paper, plastic, glass, garbage, trash, waste, more...

Phrases:

rubbish heap, rubbish dump, rubbish bin, rubbish heaps, rubbish dumps, more...

Adjectives:

such, other, much, old, bad, mere, utter, absolute, domestic, useless, sentimental

Colors:

gray, brown, black, dull green, rust, more...