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nonsense

/ˈnɒnsəns/

noun

Meaning

  • 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.

Synonyms

absurdity,
contradiction,
silliness,
stupidity,
unreasoning,
absurdity,
falsehood,
lie,
rubbish,
tosh,
untruth

verb

Meaning

  • 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

Synonyms

belittle,
dismiss,
dwarf

adjective

Meaning

  • 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

Meaning

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