nonsense
Meanings
Plural: nonsenses
Noun
- a message that seems to convey no meaning
- ornamental objects of no great value
- Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning.
- An untrue statement.
- That which is silly, illogical and lacks any meaning, reason or value; that which does not make sense.
- Something foolish.
- A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by Edward Lear.
- A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.
Adjective Satellite
- having no intelligible meaning
- "nonsense syllables"
Verb
- To make nonsense of;
- To attempt to dismiss as nonsense; to ignore or belittle the significance of something; to render unimportant or puny.
- To joke around, to waste time
Adj
- Nonsensical.
- Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon (not coding for an amino-acid).
Intj
- An emphatic rejection of something one has just heard and does not believe or agree with.
Origin / Etymology
From non- (“no, none, lack of”) + sense, from c. 1610. Compare the semantically similar West Frisian ûnsin (“nonsense”), Dutch onzin (“nonsense”), German Unsinn (“nonsense”), English unsense (“nonsense”).
Synonyms
absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, applesauce, bafflegab, balderdash, balls, baloney, banana oil, Bandini, baragouin, batcrap, batshit, belittle, bilgewater, blah, blather, blatherskite, bobbins, bollocks, bosh, BS, bull, bull feathers, bullcrap, bulldust, bullshit, bullspeak, bunk, bunkum, bushwah, clamjamfrey, claptrap, cobblers, codswallop, contradiction, crap, crock, crock of shit, dismiss, double Dutch, double talk, doublespeak, drivel, eyewash, falderol, falsehood, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flim-flam, flizz, flummery, folderal, folderol, foolishness, footle, framis, frill, fuckery, fuckry, fudge, galimatias, garbage, garble, gibber, gibberish, gimcrack, gimcrackery, gobbledygook, gossip, Greek, guff, gup, hoax, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hokum, hooey, horse hockey, horse piss, horse puckey, horsefeathers, horseshit, humbug, Irish bull, jabber, jargon, jibber-jabber, jimjam, jive, junk, lallation, lie, macaroni, malarkey, manure, meaninglessness, moonshine, mumbo jumbo, nertz, nonsense, nonsensical, nonsensicality, pie in the sky, piffle, pigswill, pooh-pooh, poppycock, prattle, put-on, rhubarb, rhubarb rhubarb, rigmarole, rot, rubbish, ruse, santorum, shit, shite, silliness, skimble-skamble, squit, stuff, stuff and nonsense, stupidity, tommy-rot, tosh, trash, tripe, trumpery, tush, twaddle, unreasoning, untruth, wass, whiff-whaff, word salad
Antonyms
nonnonsense, plain English, sense
Scrabble Score: 8
nonsense is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordnonsense is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
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