nonsense
Americannoun
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words or language having little or no sense or meaning.
- Synonyms:
- twaddle, trumpery, trash, tommyrot, rubbish, rot, poppycock, piffle, moonshine, humbug, hooey, hokum, guff, gibberish, foolishness, folderol, flapdoodle, fiddle-faddle, drivel, bunk, bull, bosh, blether, blatherskite, blather, blarney, bilge water, bilge, baloney, balderdash
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conduct, action, etc., that is senseless, foolish, or absurd.
to have tolerated enough nonsense.
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impudent, insubordinate, or otherwise objectionable behavior.
He doesn't have to take that nonsense from you.
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something absurd or fatuous.
the utter nonsense of such a suggestion.
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anything of trifling importance or of little or no use.
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Genetics. a DNA sequence that does not code for an amino acid and is not transcribed (sense ).
noun
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something that has or makes no sense; unintelligible language; drivel
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conduct or action that is absurd
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foolish or evasive behaviour or manners
she'll stand no nonsense
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See no-nonsense
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things of little or no value or importance; trash
interjection
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Relating to a mutation in a structural gene that changes a nucleotide triplet into a stop codon, thus prematurely terminating the polypeptide chain during protein synthesis.
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See more at point mutation
Other Word Forms
- nonsensical adjective
- nonsensically adverb
- nonsensicalness noun
Etymology
Origin of nonsense
Example Sentences
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“I don’t want them to have to deal with any of the nonsense of being tracked or being pulled over and questioned.”
From Los Angeles Times
Why would the algorithm think I’d agree with much of this nonsense, except that my views on Iran have been categorized alongside them?
Miss Allen was known as “a maiden lady, sharp and wiry, with a grain of wit which could not tolerate nonsense.”
From Literature
In a statement, a government spokeswoman said the lawsuit was "nonsense", adding: "But we welcome the opportunity to solve it once and for all in a court of law."
From Barron's
“I have no time for your nonsense. This poor creature is in trouble.”
From Literature
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
