Refuse vs. Rubbish — What's the Difference?

To indicate unwillingness to do, accept, give, or allow

Waste material; refuse or litter

To indicate unwillingness (to do something)

Criticize severely and reject as worthless

To decline to jump (an obstacle). Used of a horse.

Very bad; worthless or useless

To decline to do, accept, give, or allow something.

Refuse; garbage.

Items or material discarded or rejected as useless or worthless; trash or rubbish.

Worthless material.

Discarded, rejected.

Foolish discourse; nonsense.

Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.

Refuse, waste, garbage, junk, trash.

(obsolete) refusal

An item, or items, of low quality.

(transitive) To decline (a request or demand).

Nonsense.

(intransitive) To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.

(archaic) Debris or ruins of buildings.

(military) To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the centre, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular alignment when troops are about to engage the enemy.

Exceedingly bad; awful.

To disown.

Used to express that something is exceedingly bad, awful, or terrible.

To melt again.

Used to express that what was recently said is nonsense or untrue; balderdash!, nonsense!

To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.

To criticize, to denigrate, to denounce, to disparage.

To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the center, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular aligment when troops ar about to engage the enemy; as, to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks.

To litter.

To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of; as, to refuse a suitor.

Waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; débris.

To disown.

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

To deny compliance; not to comply.

Worthless material that is to be disposed of

Refusal.

Nonsensical talk or writing

That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste or worthless matter.

Attack strongly

Refused; rejected; hence; left as unworthy of acceptance; of no value; worthless.

Food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)

Show unwillingness towards;

Refuse to accept;

Elude, especially in a baffling way;

Refuse to let have;

Resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ;

Refuse entrance or membership;