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Nonsense

Nonsense Meaning & Definition
Nonsense Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Nonsense?

[n] ornamental objects of no great value
[n] a message that seems to convey no meaning

Synonyms | Synonyms for Nonsense: falderal | folderol | frills | gimcrackery | gimcracks | hokum | meaninglessness | nonsensicality | trumpery

Related Terms | Find terms related to Nonsense: 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 | fiddledeedee | fiddle-faddle | flapdoodle | flimflam | flummery | folderol | foolishness | frivolity | fudge | fustian | gabble | galimatias | gammon | garbage | gas | gibber | gibberish | gibble-gabble | gobbledygook | gook | Greek | 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

See Also | absurdity | absurdness | amphigory | balderdash | baloney | bilgewater | boloney | bosh | buzzword | cant | cobblers | content | drool | empty talk | empty words | fa la | fal la | fiddle-faddle | flummery | gibber | gibberish | hooey | hot air | humbug | incoherence | incoherency | jabberwocky | message | mummery | nonsense verse | palaver | piffle | poppycock | rhetoric | ridiculousness | rigamarole | rigmarole | stuff | stuff | stuff and nonsense | subject matter | substance | sundries | sundry | taradiddle | tarradiddle | tommyrot | tosh | twaddle | unintelligibility | whatchamacallit | whatsis

Nonsense In Webster's Dictionary

\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.

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