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Synonyms for nonsense
ˈnɒn sɛns, -sənsnon·sense

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Wiktionary0.0 / 0 votes

  1. nonsenseverb

    Synonyms:
    pooh-pooh, rubbish

  2. nonsenseverb

    Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or seem to have no meaning.

    After my father had a stroke, every time he tried to talk, it sounded like nonsense.

    Synonyms:
    pooh-pooh, rubbish

  3. nonsenseverb

    To attempt to dismiss as nonsense.

    He says that I stole his computer, but that's just nonsense.

    Synonyms:
    rubbish, pooh-pooh

  4. nonsenseverb

    To joke around, to waste time

    Synonyms:
    rubbish, pooh-pooh

English Synonyms and Antonyms2.0 / 1 vote

  1. nonsense

    Synonyms:
    absurdity, contradiction, demonstration, paradox, sophism

    Antonyms:
    axiom, truism

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms2.0 / 2 votes

  1. nonsense

    Synonyms:
    absurdity, trash, folly, pretense, jest, balderdash

    Antonyms:
    sense, wisdom, truth, fact, gravity, philosophy, science, reason

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokumnoun

    a message that seems to convey no meaning

    Synonyms:
    folderal, bunkum, hogwash, feed bunk, gimcrack, guff, bunk, frill, trumpery, nonsensicality, buncombe, meaninglessness, built in bed, falderol, hokum, bunk bed, gimcrackery, rot, berth

    Antonyms:
    meaningful

  2. folderal, falderol, frill, gimcrackery, gimcrack, nonsense, trumperyadjective

    ornamental objects of no great value

    Synonyms:
    flounce, folderal, gimcrackery, trash, gimcrack, codswallop, bunk, frill, rubbish, wish-wash, trumpery, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, ruff, applesauce, folderol, falderol, hokum, furbelow, ruffle, tripe

    Antonyms:
    meaningful

  3. nonsense(a), nonsensicaladjective

    having no intelligible meaning

    "nonsense syllables"; "a nonsensical jumble of words"

    Antonyms:
    meaningful

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. nonsensenoun

    Synonyms:
    folly, absurdity, stuff, trash, moonshine, twaddle, balderdash, fudge, inanity, platitude

  2. nonsensenoun

    Synonyms:
    trifles, things of no consequence or importance

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. nonsensenoun

    Synonyms:
    absurdity, twaddle, bosh, fudge, silliness, balderdash, moonshine, amphigory, rigmarole

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#6500demonstration
#7949trash
#11383insane
#12351nonsense
#12604ridiculous
#15089rubbish
#15245paradox
#16072foolish
#16818absurd
#17344rot
#17944contradiction
#18355bullshit
#19709bunk
#20444stupidity
#21891folly
#22809disparate
#25499berth
#26809ruff
#28571jest
#34901ruffle
#35057senseless
#37614absurdity
#45581applesauce
#47276foolishness
#48205pretense
#48752nonsensical
#51009preposterous
#53248buncombe
#64316tripe
#83259balderdash
#92640hogwash
#99707frill
#109173guff
#116895poppycock
#137849hokum
#140056meaninglessness
#147361claptrap
#175640flounce
#221139fiddlesticks
#271707codswallop

How to use nonsense in a sentence?

  1. Kevin Brady:

    Given the times, I'm sure someone will say it's Trump's fault, that's how everything works in Washington. Nonsense. look, I'm proud to have worked with the President and often with lawmakers of both parties.

  2. Amy KlobucharA:

    If you feel stuck in the middle of the extremes in our politics and you are tired of the noise and the nonsense, you've got a home with me, i am someone who tells the truth, I don't make promises I can't keep.

  3. Jean Kerr:

    I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas

  4. Deputy Kerr:

    I've had enough of all of this nonsense, serving a system that does not give a damn about me or people like me, you have no idea how hard it is to put a uniform on in this day and age with everything that's going on.

  5. Jerry Nadler:

    If he is permitted to defy the Congress, categorically, to say that subpoenas from Congress in an impeachment inquiry are nonsense, then we will have lost -- the House will have lost, the Senate certainly will have lost -- all power to hold any president accountable, this is a determination by President Trump that President Trump wants to be all powerful. President Trump does not have to respect the Congress. President Trump does not have to respect the representatives of the people. Only President Trump will goes. He is a dictator. This must not stand.


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