The difference between Refuse and Rubbish
When used as nouns, refuse means collectively, items or material that have been discarded, whereas rubbish means garbage, junk, refuse, trash, waste.
When used as verbs, refuse means to decline (a request or demand), whereas rubbish means to criticize, to denigrate, to denounce, to disparage.
When used as adjectives, refuse means discarded, rejected, whereas rubbish means exceedingly bad.
check bellow for the other definitions of Refuse and Rubbish
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Refuse as an adjective:
Discarded, rejected.
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Refuse as a noun:
Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.
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Refuse as a verb (transitive):
To decline (a request or demand).
Examples:
"My request for a pay rise was refused."
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Refuse as a verb (intransitive):
To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.
Examples:
"I refuse to listen to this nonsense any more."
"I asked the star if I could have her autograph, but she refused."
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Refuse as a verb (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.
Examples:
"to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks"
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Refuse as a verb (obsolete, transitive):
To disown.
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Refuse as a noun (obsolete):
refusal
Examples:
"rfquotek Fairfax"
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Refuse as a verb:
To melt again.
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Rubbish as a noun (chiefly, Australia, New Zealand, Britain):
Garbage, junk, refuse, trash, waste.
Examples:
"The rubbish is collected every Thursday in Gloucester, but on Wednesdays in Cheltenham."
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Rubbish as a noun (chiefly, Australia, New Zealand, Britain):
Items of low quality.
Examples:
"Much of what they sell is rubbish."
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Rubbish as a noun (chiefly, Australia, New Zealand, Britain):
Nonsense.
Examples:
"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?"
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Rubbish as a noun (archaic):
Debris or ruins of buildings.
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Rubbish as an adjective (chiefly, Australia, New Zealand, Britain, colloquial):
Exceedingly bad; awful.
Examples:
"synonyms abysmacrappy horrendous shitty terrible; ''see also'' [[Thesaurus:bad]], [[Thesaurus:low-quality]]"
"This has been a rubbish day, and it’s about to get worse: my mother-in-law is coming to stay."
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Rubbish as a verb (transitive, chiefly, Australia, New Zealand, Britain, colloquial):
To criticize, to denigrate, to denounce, to disparage.