nonsense
Meaning of nonsense
- Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning.
After my father had a stroke, every time he tried to talk, it sounded like nonsense.
- An untrue statement.
He says that I stole his computer, but that's just nonsense.
- 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.
- 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
- Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon (not coding for an amino-acid).
- Nonsensical
interjection
An emphatic rejection of something one has just heard and does not believe or agree with.
Information about nonsense
- The plural form of nonsense is: nonsenses.
- Languages in which nonsense is used:
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Hyphenation of nonsense
non-sense
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- nonsense is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
nonsense synonyms
Meaning nonsensical:
Meaning bunk:
bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum
Meaning folderal:
falderol, frill, gimcrackery, gimcrack, trumpery
Meaning :
absurdity, contradiction, silliness, stupidity, unreasoning, falsehood, lie, rubbish, tosh, untruth, belittle, dismiss, dwarf
Translation of nonsense
- German: Kauderwelsch, Geschwätz, Unsinn, Unfug, Humbug
- French: bêtise, absurdité
- Spanish: balbuceo, tontería, disparate, sandez
- Italian: stupidaggine, assurdità, nonsenso, sciocchezza
Words that rhyme with nonsense
ense, becense, cense, delicense, dislicense, encense, frankincense, incense, innocense, lactescense, license, prelicense, prolicense, recense, reincense, relicense, sublicense, Odense, condense, dense, echodense, equidense, hyperdense, hypodense, nondense, overcondense, precondense, radiodense, recondense, superdense, ugandense, ultradense, defense, nondefense, offense, predefense, preoffense, reoffense, undefense, comprehense, incomprehense, braziliense, gambiense, rhodesiense, congolense, flense, lense, coimmense, immense, mense