What are some opposite words for nonsense?

Antonyms for nonsense
ˈnɒn sɛns, -sənsnon·sense

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  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

    Antonyms:
    axiom, truism

    Synonyms:
    absurdity, contradiction, demonstration, paradox, sophism

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms2.0 / 2 votes

  1. nonsense

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

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

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Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokumnoun

    a message that seems to convey no meaning

    Antonyms:
    meaningful

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

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

    ornamental objects of no great value

    Antonyms:
    meaningful

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

  3. nonsense(a), nonsensicaladjective

    having no intelligible meaning

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

    Antonyms:
    meaningful

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. nonsensenoun

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

How to use nonsense in a sentence?

  1. President Putin:

    Could you name a single fact that would definitely prove the collusion? This is utter nonsense, just like the president recently mentioned.

  2. Heartbeat International:

    It is disappointing that someone with such influence would choose to use her platform to spread such nonsense, science shows us that human life begins at conception.

  3. William Barr:

    Ukraine certainly puts a greater emphasis on the need for us to stop all this nonsense about stopping our own energy production.

  4. Laura Blevins:

    He was talking nonsense.

  5. Mark Pennak:

    That's exactly what it is, they have to arrange transportation to a range, meet an instructor, to fire one bullet. Any instructor will tell you that's just nonsense in terms of actual training.

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Words popularity by usage frequency

rankingword
#440science
#854fact
#1246reason
#1568sense
#2276truth
#2747philosophy
#5174wisdom
#7797gravity
#8204meaningful
#12351nonsense
#20801axiom
#88590truism

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