NONSENSE - 11 definitions found
nonsense adj 1: having no intelligible meaning; "nonsense syllables"; "a nonsensical jumble of words" [syn: nonsense(a), nonsensical] n 1: a message that seems to convey no meaning [syn: nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum] 2: ornamental objects of no great value [syn: folderal, falderol, frill, gimcrackery, gimcrack, nonsense, trumpery] nonsense 1614, from non- + sense. nonsense ˈnɔnsəns See: STUFF AND NONSENSE. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) nonsense I. noun Date: 1614 1. a. words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas b. (1) language, conduct, or an idea that is absurd or contrary to good sense (2) an instance of absurd action 2. a. things of no importance or value ; trifles b. affected or impudent conduct <took no nonsense from subordinates> 3. genetic information consisting of one or more codons that do not code for any amino acid and usually cause termination of the molecular chain in protein synthesis • nonsensical adjective • nonsensically adverb • nonsensicalness noun II. adjective Date: 1799 1. consisting of an arbitrary grouping of speech sounds or symbols <\ˈshrȯg-ˌthī-əmpth\ is a nonsense word> <a nonsense syllable> 2. consisting of one or more codons that are genetic nonsense — compare antisense, missense Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary nonsense 1. If you say that something spoken or written is nonsense, you mean that you consider it to be untrue or silly. Most orthodox doctors however dismiss this as complete nonsense. ...all that poetic nonsense about love... 'I'm putting on weight.'—'Nonsense my dear.' = rubbish N-UNCOUNT [disapproval] 2. You can use nonsense to refer to something that you think is foolish or that you disapprove of. Surely it is an economic nonsense to deplete the world of natural resources... I think there is a limit to how much of this nonsense people are going to put up with. N-UNCOUNT: also a N, usu supp N [disapproval] 3. You can refer to spoken or written words that do not mean anything because they do not make sense as nonsense. ...a children's nonsense poem by Charles E Carryl. N-UNCOUNT 4. see also no-nonsense 5. To make a nonsense of something or to make nonsense of it means to make it seem ridiculous or pointless. The fighting made a nonsense of peace pledges made in London last week... PHRASE: V inflects, PHR n 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue NONSENSE Melting butter in a wig. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Nonsense \Non"sense\, n. [Pref. non- + sense: cf. F. nonsens.] 1. That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity. 2. Trifles; things of no importance. Nonsense verses, lines made by taking any words which occur, but especially certain words which it is desired to recollect, and arranging them without reference to anything but the measure, so that the rhythm of the lines may aid in recalling the remembrance of the words. Syn: Folly; silliness; absurdity; trash; balderdash. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms nonsense n. 1. Folly, absurdity, stuff, trash, moonshine, twaddle, balderdash, fudge, inanity, platitude. 2. Trifles, things of no consequence or importance. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 125 Moby Thesaurus words for "nonsense": Greek, absurdity, absurdness, amphigory, antics, applesauce, babble, babblement, balderdash, baloney, bibble-babble, bilge, blabber, blah, blather, blatherskite, blether, bombast, bosh, buffoonery, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, bushwa, cackle, capering, claptrap, cock, crap, double Dutch, double-talk, drip, drivel, drool, eyewash, fantasticalness, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flapdoodle, flimflam, flummery, folderol, foolishness, frivolity, fudge, fustian, gabble, galimatias, gammon, garbage, gas, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gobbledygook, gook, guff, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hokum, hooey, horsefeathers, horseplay, hot air, humbug, inanity, jabber, jabberwocky, jargon, jazz, jesting, jiggery-pokery, jokes, joking, ludicrousness, malarkey, mischief, monkey business, monkeyshines, monstrousness, moonshine, mumbo jumbo, mumbo-jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsensicality, outrageousness, pack of nonsense, palaver, piffle, poppycock, pranks, prate, prattle, preposterousness, puffery, punk, rant, ridiculousness, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, rot, rubbish, shenanigans, shit, silliness, skimble-skamble, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, tomfoolery, tommyrot, trash, tricks, tripe, trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vaporing, waffle, waffling, waggishness, wildness |
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