Word Type
Rubbish can be an interjection, a noun, an adjective or a verb.
rubbish used as an interjection:
- Expresses that something is exceedingly bad, terrible or awful.
"The one day I actually practice my violin, the teacher cancels the lesson." - Expresses that what was recently said is untruth or nonsense.
"Rubbish! I did nothing of the sort!"
An interjection is an abrupt remark like Oh! or Dear me, or Eww. It is usually used to express the strong emotions of the speaker. The sentence 'Congratulations! You won the gold medal!' shows the use of 'congratulations' as an interjection. Learn more →
rubbish used as a noun:
- 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?"
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
rubbish used as an adjective:
- 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."
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
rubbish used as a verb:
- To denounce, to criticise.
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is rubbish?
- Interjection usage: The one day I actually practice my violin, the teacher cancels the lesson.
- Interjection usage: Aw, rubbish! Though at least this means you have time to play football...
- Interjection usage: Rubbish! I did nothing of the sort!
- Noun usage: The rubbish is collected every Thursday in Gloucester, but on Wednesdays in Cheltenham.
- Noun usage: 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?
- Adjective usage: This has been a rubbish day, and it's about to get worse: my mother-in-law is coming to stay.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of rubbish are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of rubbish, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
