Nonsense

Noun

 * 1) Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or seem to have no meaning.
 * 2) An untrue statement.
 * 3) Something foolish.
 * 4)  A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by Edward Lear.
 * 5)  A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.

Verb

 * 1) To make nonsense of
 * 2) To attempt to dismiss as nonsense.
 * 3)  To joke around, to waste time

Adjectives for Nonsense
unmitigated; victorious; fatuous; continued; puerile; idiotic; nimble; incomprehensible; tawdry; driveling; nostalgic; undiluted; inexcusable; intelligible; licentious; good-natured; delicious:  unadulterated;  abject; frothy; palpable; amusing; blasted; airy; ridiculous; pleasant; absolute; blatant; extravagant; aristocratic.

Verbs for Nonsense
dare—; denounce—; disapprove of—; disfavor—; emit—; frown on—; quibble in—; relish—; reproach for—; scoff at—; spare —; swallow—; tolerate—; wrap in—; — clouds; —confuses; —eases; —perplexes; —-prevails; —revolts; —romps; —shames; — stigmatizes.

Thesaurus
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, Greek, 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, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flapdoodle, flimflam, flummery, folderol, foolishness, frivolity, fudge, fustian, gabble, galimatias, gammon, garbage, gas, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gobbledygook, gook, 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,

Synonyms

 * balderdash, baloney, bull, bulldust, bunk, codswallop, drivel, gibberish, hogwash, hooey, horse hockey, malarkey, manure, poppycock, prattle, rhubarb , rubbish, twaddle
 * bollocks, bullshit, crap, horseshit
 * bollocks, bullshit, crap, horseshit

Derived terms

 * nonsensical


 * nonsensification


 * nonsensify

Synonyms

 * pooh-pooh, rubbish

Noun

 * Arabic: هراء,, تفاهة
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: bajanada, bestiesa
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 胡說, 胡说, 胡言,
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: (s),  (s),
 * German: Blödsinn, Nonsens , Quatsch , Unsinn ,
 * Hebrew:, in old slang
 * Hindi: बकवास
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: rugl, bull


 * Indonesian: omong kosong
 * Italian:, senza senso, priva di significato, ridicolaggine
 * Japanese:, ナンセンス, 馬鹿げた事
 * Korean: 어리석은 소리 (eoriseokeun sori), 헛소리 (heotsori)
 * Kurdish:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, absurditate, nonsensuri
 * Russian:, , , , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: sgudal ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Urdu: بکواس
 * Welsh:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 胡說, 胡说, 胡言,
 * Croatian:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * French: (s)
 * Italian: balla, fandonia, scemenza, fola, baggianata


 * Japanese: でたらめ
 * Romanian: nerozie, nerozii, prostie
 * Russian:, , , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: sgudal ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Welsh:


 * Czech:


 * Korean: 난센스 (nansenseu)


 * Finnish: toimimaton


 * Korean: 무의미 (muuimi)