nonsense

Meaning of nonsense

noun
  1. 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.
  2. An untrue statement.
    He says that I stole his computer, but that's just nonsense.
  3. That which is silly, illogical and lacks any meaning, reason or value; that which does not make sense.
  4. Something foolish.
  5. A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by Edward Lear.
  6. A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.
verb
  1. To make nonsense of;
  2. To attempt to dismiss as nonsense; to ignore or belittle the significance of something; to render unimportant or puny.
  3. To joke around, to waste time
adjective
  1. Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon (not coding for an amino-acid).
  2. Nonsensical

interjection

An emphatic rejection of something one has just heard and does not believe or agree with.

Information about nonsense

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:

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

Words that rhyme with nonsense

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