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nonsense
[ non-sens, -suhns ]
noun
- words or language having little or no sense or meaning.
Synonyms: twaddle, trumpery, trash, tommyrot, rubbish, rot, poppycock, piffle, moonshine, humbug, hooey, hokum, guff, gibberish, foolishness, folderol, flapdoodle, fiddle-faddle, drivel, bunk, bull, bosh, blether, blatherskite, blather, blarney, bilge water, bilge, baloney, balderdash
- conduct, action, etc., that is senseless, foolish, or absurd:
to have tolerated enough nonsense.
- impudent, insubordinate, or otherwise objectionable behavior:
He doesn't have to take that nonsense from you.
- something absurd or fatuous:
the utter nonsense of such a suggestion.
- anything of trifling importance or of little or no use.
- Genetics. a DNA sequence that does not code for an amino acid and is not transcribed ( sense ).
nonsense
/ nɒnˈsɛnsɪkəl; ˈnɒnsəns /
noun
- something that has or makes no sense; unintelligible language; drivel
- conduct or action that is absurd
- foolish or evasive behaviour or manners
she'll stand no nonsense
- See no-nonsense
- things of little or no value or importance; trash
interjection
- an exclamation of disagreement
nonsense
/ nŏn′sĕns′ /
- Relating to a mutation in a structural gene that changes a nucleotide triplet into a stop codon, thus prematurely terminating the polypeptide chain during protein synthesis.
- See more at point mutation
Derived Forms
- nonˈsensically, adverb
- nonˈsensicalness, noun
- nonsensical, adjective
Other Words From
- non·sen·si·cal [non-, sen, -si-k, uh, l], adjective
Idioms and Phrases
see stuff and nonsense .Example Sentences
The academic, historic, and geopolitical nonsense that Khomeinism equals Iran has lasted long enough.
But the author of The Beauty Myth has become a nonsense-garbling conspiracy theorist.
In those early days, no-nonsense Anna was a full partner in the business.
A country that is serious about health reform would not take a limited, valued resource and waste it on nonsense like this.
You can either consume this plasticky PR nonsense and keep watching, or you can walk away.
"Look here, old man, this superstitious nonsense is becoming an obsession to you," it said one fine April morning.
If you do not give up thinking and take to nonsense and novels, I shall be called to take you through a nervous fever.
I don't want to hear any more of that nonsense, nor to have you, Dorothy, go searching for the place.
"If he would only read our books, and enter into poetry and delight in it; but it is all nonsense to him," said Ethel.
If you were an only son, it might be your duty to stay; being one of many, 'tis nonsense to make a rout about parting with you.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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