Complete Definition of "rubbish"

English
Adjective
rubbish

  1. context|UK|colloquial Exceedingly bad; awful; terrible; crap

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

Interjection
rubbish!

  1. context|UK|colloquial Expresses that something is exceedingly bad, terrible or awful.

#: The one day I actually practice my violin, the teacher cancels the lesson.
#: Aw, rubbish! Though at least this means you have time to play football...

Noun
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rubbish (uncountable)

  1. garbage, junk, refuse, waste

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

  1. 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?

Synonyms
see WikiSaurus:nonsense

Derived terms
rfc-level|Derived terms at L4+ not in L3 POS section (AutoFormat? would have corrected level of Synonyms)
rubbish bin

Translations
Chinese: ��, ��
Dutch: vuilnis n (1)
French: déchets m plural
German: Abfall m
Greek: �κο��ίδια plural
Hungarian: szemét
Italian: rifiuti m plural, porcherie f plural, immondizie f plural
Japanese: � (��), ��
Korean: 졸�
Russian: �лам m (khlam)
Spanish: desperdicios m plural
Vietnamese: rác rư�i

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