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Synonyms for trash

  • noun
  • verb

Most common

rubbish junk litter stuff chicken feed meth wish-wash ben

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

1. Rubbish — A dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful

rubbish, garbage US AU CA, junk, litter, stuff, waste, crap, debris, dregs, bullshit, balderdash, dreck informal, drek UK, dross, drivel, offal, twaddle, hogwash, lumber, rigmarole, rigamarole US, piece of trash, bull, hokum

2. Chicken feed

chicken feed, meth, ice, glass, methamphetamine, chalk, crank, methamphetamine hydrochloride, shabu slang, deoxyephedrine rare, methedrine rare

3. Wish-wash

wish-wash, tripe, apple sauce, trumpery, fol de rol, cods wallop

4. Garbage can — A container into which things are discarded

garbage can US CA, rubbish bin UK IE, ben

Other

scrap, non-sense, recycle bin, refuse, chicken-shit, scum, discard, riff-raff, moon-shine, chaff, rabble, clap-trap

Verb

1. Tear apart

tear apart, pan

Other

deface, detrash rare

Antonyms

treasure, masterpiece, gem

All antonyms of trash →

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    A container into which things are discarded.

  2. n. 2

    A dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful.

  3. n. 3

    Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.

  4. v. 1

    To discard.

Related words

Word family
trashbox trashed trash-mover trashpost trash-talk trashy
Phrases
trash can trash bin piece of trash talk trash trash panda white trash trash bag trash-talk
Is a kind of
remainder

Forms

Plural
trashes → rubbishes, junks, litters, stuffs…
Past participle
trashed
e.g. trashed → panned, defaced, detrashed…

Example sentences

  • crap Crap! I haven't turned on the washing machine yet!
  • junk There's nothing in here but a lot of useless junk.
  • debris The explosion sent debris flying in all directions.
  • litter The she-cat gave birth to a litter of six kittens.
  • ice It was so hot that she felt like eating ice cream.
  • meth Crystal meth is short for crystal methamphetamine.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
trashrising
craprising
junkrising
debrissteady
littersteady
icesteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
ice1, ben1, pan1
4 letters
crap1, bull1, junk1, scum1, meth1, drek
5 letters
stuff1, waste1, glass1, scrap1, chalk1, crank1, chaff1, tripe1, dregs1, offal, dross1, shabu, hokum2, dreck
6 letters
refuse2, debris2, litter2, lumber2, rabble2, drivel2, deface2
7 letters
garbage2, rubbish2, discard2, hogwash2, twaddle2, detrash
8 letters
bullshit2, trumpery
9 letters
rigmarole
10 letters
balderdash3, rigamarole, methedrine
14 letters
deoxyephedrine
15 letters
methamphetamine5

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (hokum2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
déchet
Italiano
rifiuto
Deutsch
Abfall