Definitions for rubbish
ˈrʌb ɪʃrub·bish

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. rubbish, trash, scrapnoun

   worthless material that is to be disposed of

2. folderol, rubbish, tripe, trumpery, trash, wish-wash, applesauce, codswallopverb

   nonsensical talk or writing

3. rubbishverb

   attack strongly

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. rubbishnoun

   Garbage, junk, refuse, waste.

   The rubbish is collected every Thursday in Gloucester, but on Wednesdays in Cheltenham.

2. rubbishnoun

   Nonsense.

   Everything the teacher said during that lesson was rubbish. How can she possibly think that a bass viol and a cello are the same thing?

3. rubbishverb

   To denounce, to criticise, to denigrate, to disparage.

4. rubbishadjective

   Exceedingly bad; awful; terrible; crappy.

   This has been a rubbish day, and it's about to get worse: my mother-in-law is coming to stay.

5. rubbishinterjection

   Expresses that something is exceedingly bad, terrible or awful.

6. rubbishinterjection

   Expresses that what was recently said is untruth or nonsense.

   Rubbish! I did nothing of the sort!

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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1. rubbish

   Rubbish refers to waste material or unwanted items that are discarded and considered useless or valueless. It can include household waste, litter, or any material that is beyond its usefulness and is intended for disposal.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Rubbishnoun

   waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; debris

2. Rubbishadjective

   of or pertaining to rubbish; of the quality of rubbish; trashy

3. Etymology: [OE. robows, robeux, rubble, originally an Old French plural from an assumed dim. of robe, probably in the sense of trash; cf. It. robaccia trash, roba stuff, goods, wares, robe. Thus, etymologically rubbish is the pl. of rubble. See Robe, and cf. Rubble.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Rubbish

   rub′ish, n. waste matter: the fragments of ruinous buildings: any mingled mass: nonsense: trash: trumpery: litter.—n. Rubb′ish-heap, a pile of rubbish.—adj. Rubb′ishing, trashy: paltry.—n. Rubb′ish-pull′ey, a gin-block.—adj. Rubb′ishy, worthless. [M. E. robows, robeux—O. Fr. robeux, pl. of robel, dim. of robe, robbe, trash, whence also rubble; cf. It. roba, rubbish, spoil.]

Matched Categories

1. • Attack
   • Waste

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'rubbish' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1299

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'rubbish' in Nouns Frequency: #1685

How to pronounce rubbish?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of rubbish in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of rubbish in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of rubbish in a Sentence

1. Peter Spencer:

   The idea that all natural things are good for you is rubbish. ... We are eating (fruits and) vegetables that potentially contain bad things, (Many) plants were not put here for our benefit but to protect themselves from predators.

2. Matt Rimmer:

   When it comes to preventing fatbergs, everyone has a role to play, yes a lot of the fat comes from food outlets but the wipes and sanitary items are far more likely to be from domestic properties. The sewers are not an abyss for household rubbish and our message to everyone is clear – please ‘Bin it – don’t block it’.

3. Kuntoro Mangkusubroto:

   Finally, the mounting tsunami rubbish was cleared. For such a huge job like that, the world didn't leave us alone to face it.

4. Gordon Noble:

   We are digging in what is essentially the area that the Picts threw their rubbish but this collection of the waste products of their day-to-day lives is a treasure trove to archaeologists, what’s exciting is the level of preservation here. We’ve found animal bone which rarely survives in mainland Scotland because of the acidic soil. We are already getting really nice information about what people ate within the fort and we hope to extract a level of information we’ve not had for Pictish sites before.

5. Dustin Johnson:

   Standing there over my second shot at 18 on that Sunday I didn't think I was standing in a sand trap, there was just so much spectator rubbish in that bunker like candy wrappers, a Gatorade bottle, beer cans and all kinds of stuff including plenty of foot prints.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=rubbish
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rubbish
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=rubbish
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rubbish
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=rubbish