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nonsense::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | falderol, folderal, frill, gimcrack, gimcrackery, trumpery |
| Type of | ornamentation, decoration, ornament |
nonsense::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsensicality |
| Type of | message, substance, content, subject matter |
| Has types | baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, buzzword, cant, cobblers, crock, drool, empty talk, empty words, fa la, fal la, fiddle-faddle, flummery, gibber, gibberish, hooey, hot air, humbug, incoherence, incoherency, jabberwocky, mummery, nonsense verse, shmegegge, absurdness, amphigory, balderdash, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle, unintelligibility, palaver, piffle, poppycock, rhetoric, ridiculousness, rigamarole, rigmarole, schmegegge, absurdity, stuff, stuff and nonsense, taradiddle |
Examples of nonsense
nonsense
To a certain ignorant minority, it always has to veer off into bigoted nonsense.
From the bostonherald.com
Have to admit Tonks would have been a good option, very old school, no nonsense.
From the thetelegraphandargus.co.uk
The Crotty Plan does a simple post-ideological end-run around all this nonsense.
From the forbes.com
Although each of these has a different history, all of them are, well, nonsense.
From the forbes.com
That way they get all the senior players who started this nonsense off the hook.
From the nzherald.co.nz
If I were a member of the GOP caucus, I would not vote for this nonsense at all.
From the economist.com
I know, sounds like the usual nonsense, but this show was high quality nonsense.
From the techcrunch.com
First the nonsense last week about what he should wear on holiday, and now this.
From the guardian.co.uk
I had endless respect for the permanent employees who put up with this nonsense.
From the independent.co.uk
- A message that seems to convey no meaning
- Nonsense(a): having no intelligible meaning; "nonsense syllables"; "a nonsensical jumble of words"
- Folderal: ornamental objects of no great value
- Nonsense ((UK), (US)) is a verbal communication or written text that is spoken or written in a human language or other symbolic system but lacks any coherent meaning. Many poets, novelists and songwriters have used nonsense in their works, often creating entire works using it. ...
- Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or seem to have no meaning; An untrue statement; 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 ...
- Codes for STOP which may truncate the protein
- Absurd or meaningless: e.g., It is just a nonsense to say that!
- I sat in the tub thinking the dictionary's illustration for the word "nonsense" had to be a bright red slice of watermelon standing upright on its rind. This was my first experience of the concept "icon."
- The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.
