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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. Phil Robertson:

    When a fellow like me looks at the landscape and sees the depravity, the perversion -- redefining marriage and telling us that marriage is not between a man and a woman? Come on Iowa! it is nonsense. It is evil. It's wicked. It's sinful.

  2. 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

  3. Edgar Watson Howe:

    I express many absurd opinions, but I am not the first man to do it American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

  4. Stephen Powis:

    The 5G story is complete and utter rubbish, it's nonsense, it's the worst kind of fake news, the reality is that the mobile phone networks are absolutely critical to all of us.

  5. Boris Johnson:

    What they don't want is friction at the border, they don't want any interruption of the economy. So they're sacrificing all the medium - and long-term gains out of fear of short term disruption, they're terrified of this nonsense. It's all total mumbo jumbo.


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