Synonyms of slush

slush 1 of 2

noun

ˈsləsh 

1

as in garbage

language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense

how can you stand to read that slush in the tabloids?

Synonyms & Similar Words

• garbage
• nuts
• nonsense
• rubbish
• drool
• blah
• muck
• stupidity
• silliness
• jazz
• trash
• beans
• bunk
• rot
• fudge
• craziness
• boloney
• bilge
• foolishness
• baloney
• punk
• falderal
• crock
• insanity
• twaddle
• balderdash
• flapdoodle
• madness
• blah-blah
• buncombe
• guff
• applesauce
• claptrap
• piffle
• humbuggery
• blatherskite
• malarky
• trumpery
• tosh
• blither
• drivel
• folderol
• hogwash
• bull
• hokum
• tarradiddle
• bunkum
• malarkey
• fiddlesticks
• fiddle
• poppycock
• bosh
• moonshine
• blather
• hooey
• tommyrot
• codswallop
• flannel
• hokeypokey
• absurdity
• horsefeathers
• nerts
• taradiddle
• blarney
• crapola
• fiddle-faddle
• humbug
• folly
• hoodoo
• absurdness
• senselessness
• gas
• idiocy
• inaneness
• greek
• imbecility
• inanity
• foolery
• kookiness
• tomfoolery
• rigamarole
• monkey business
• lunacy
• rigmarole
• asininity
• witlessness
• hot air
• fatuity
• monkeyshine(s)
• shenanigan(s)
• hocus-pocus
• hoity-toity
• double-talk

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• rationality
• reasonableness
• common sense
• sense
• horse sense
• judgment
• judgement
• reasonability
• wisdom
• sensibleness
• levelheadedness
• discernment

2

as in mud

soft wet earth

he paused in front of the doorway to wipe the slush off of his boots before going inside

Synonyms & Similar Words

• mud
• sludge
• muck
• gravel
• sand
• ooze
• slime
• mire
• dirt
• silt
• slop
• gook
• guck
• clay
• gumbo
• soil
• loam
• humus

3

as in corn

something (as a work of literature or music) that is too sentimental

a musical that has been reviled as pure slush by the New York critics

Synonyms & Similar Words

• corn
• sludge
• goo
• mush
• sorghum
• rubbish
• soap opera
• schmalz
• schmaltz
• tripe
• claptrap
• drivel

4

as in cheese

that which is of low quality or worth

discovered that slush is what publishers want, so that's exactly what she'll write

didn't want to put in the effort to produce anything better than slush

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cheese
• junk
• rubbish
• muck
• trash
• lemon
• camp
• tripe
• drek
• bomb
• slop
• dreck
• mess
• nonsense
• sleaze
• crapola
• kitsch
• claptrap
• turkey
• clinker
• humbug
• stinker
• dud
• shambles
• muddle
• clunker

slush

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verb

as in to spray

Synonyms & Similar Words

• spray
• slop
• water
• squirt
• sprinkle
• steep
• bathe
• wash
• drown
• douse
• saturate
• impregnate
• drench
• soak
• splatter
• dowse
• sop
• spatter
• splash
• souse
• bespatter
• dash
• plash

Examples of slush in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

Northville, Three Cedar Farm's Donut Hut featured cider, cider slushes and hot apple cider and farm market products along with a weekend drive-thru express. —Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 7 Sep. 2024

Drills meant to probe icy depths instead get stuck in the slush. —Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 17 July 2024

Verb

Kevin Nye attended the Juneau Trump rally, where vehicles, some decked with U.S. flags or banners supporting Trump, lined up Sunday to parade through town as the streets turned to slush from the snow and rain. —Becky Bohrer, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Nov. 2020

When the bathrooms began flooding, the manager decided the night was canceled, and fans begrudgingly slushed their way out. —Nellie Bowles, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2020