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Rubbish vs Rubble - What's the difference?

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Rubble is a related term of rubbish.



As nouns the difference between rubbish and rubble

is that rubbish is garbage, junk, refuse, waste while rubble is the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.

As an adjective rubbish

is exceedingly bad; awful; terrible; crappy.

As an interjection rubbish

is expresses that something is exceedingly bad, terrible or awful.

As a verb rubbish

is to denounce, to criticise, to denigrate, to disparage.

rubbish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (chiefly, AU, NZ, British, colloquial) 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.

    Interjection

  • (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...
  • Expresses that what was recently said is untruth or nonsense.
    • Rubbish! I did nothing of the sort!

    Synonyms

    * (expresses that what was recently said is untruth or nonsense) nonsense, bullshit, bollocks

    Noun

    (wikipedia rubbish) (-)
  • Garbage, junk, refuse, waste.
    • The rubbish is collected every Thursday in Gloucester, but on Wednesdays in Cheltenham.
  • 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?
  • Fragments of buildings; ruins; debris.
  • * Dryden
    • He saw the town's one half in rubbish lie.

    Synonyms

    * See also * See also

    Derived terms

    * rubbish bin

    Related terms

    * rubble

    Verb

    (es)
  • To denounce, to criticise, to denigrate, to disparage.

    • Derived terms

    * rubbisher

    References

    rubble

    English

    Noun

  • The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.
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  • (geology) A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring rock.
    • (Lyell)
  • (UK, dialect, in the plural) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.
    • (Simmonds)

    Derived terms

    * reduce to rubble * rubblestone * rubblework

    Related terms

    * rubbish

    References

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