- absurdity
- babble
- baloney
- bunk
- craziness
- drivel
- folly
- foolishness
- gibberish
- madness
- rubbish
- silliness
- stupidity
- trash
- balderdash
- bull
- claptrap
- fatuity
- flightiness
- fun
- garbage
- hogwash
- hooey
- inanity
- irrationality
- jazz
- jive
- palaver
- poppycock
- prattle
- ranting
- rashness
- rot
- senselessness
- tripe
- hot air
- ludicrousness
- mumbo jumbo
On this page you’ll find 87 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to nonsense, such as: absurdity, babble, baloney, bunk, craziness, and drivel.
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«Look here, old man, this superstitious nonsense is becoming an obsession to you,» it said one fine April morning.
UNCANNY TALESVARIOUS
If you do not give up thinking and take to nonsense and novels, I shall be called to take you through a nervous fever.
TESSA WADSWORTH’S DISCIPLINEJENNIE M. DRINKWATER
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
WORDS RELATED TO NONSENSE
- bunk
- fudge
- hogwash
- hokum
- hooey
- malarkey
- nonsense
- poppycock
- pulp
- rubbish
- babble
- gabble
- jabber
- nonsense
- prattle
- babble
- blither
- chatter
- nonsense
- prattle
- babble
- balderdash
- gabble
- gibberish
- jabber
- jabberwocky
- nonsense
- prate
- prattle
- baloney
- bosh
- bull
- bunk
- bunkum
- crap
- drivel
- gibberish
- guff
- hogwash
- hokum
- hooey
- malarkey
- moonshine
- nonsense
- phooey
- poppycock
- posh
- rubbish
- bombast
- bunk
- drivel
- nonsense
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absurdity, ambiguity, applesauce, babble, balderdash, en.synonym.one, baloney, bombast, bull, bullshit, buncombe, bunk, bunkum, burlesque, cack, chatter, chit-chat, codswallop, crap, dilemma, drivel, enigma, extravagance, falderal, falderol, farce, en.synonym.one, fickleness, flapdoodle, flightiness, folderal, folderol, folly, foolishness, frill, frippery, frivolity, fun, gab, gibberish, giddiness, gimcrack, gimcrackery, grandiloquence, guff, hogwash, hokum, horseplay, idiocy, idle talk, implausibility, impossibility, en.synonym.one, imprudence, inanity, invalidity, irrationality, jargon, jive, joke, junk, madness, maze, meaninglessness, nonsensicality, outrageousness, palaver, paradox, patter, pomposity, prattle, preposterousness, pretension, quandary, rashness, rhetoric, rhubarb, ridiculousness, rot, rubbish, scribble, senselessness, sham, silliness, stupidity, thoughtlessness, trash, travesty, tripe, trumpery, twaddle, waste, wish-wash, chatter, chit-chat, drivel, gibberish, jabber, en.synonym.one, patter, twaddle, nonsensical.
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nonsenseverb
Synonyms:
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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 -
nonsenseverb
To attempt to dismiss as nonsense.
He says that I stole his computer, but that’s just nonsense.
Synonyms:
rubbish, pooh-pooh -
nonsenseverb
To joke around, to waste time
Synonyms:
rubbish, pooh-pooh
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nonsense
Synonyms:
absurdity, trash, folly, pretense, jest, balderdashAntonyms:
sense, wisdom, truth, fact, gravity, philosophy, science, reason
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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, berthAntonyms:
meaningful -
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, tripeAntonyms:
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nonsense(a), nonsensicaladjective
having no intelligible meaning
«nonsense syllables»; «a nonsensical jumble of words»
Antonyms:
meaningful
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nonsensenoun
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folly, absurdity, stuff, trash, moonshine, twaddle, balderdash, fudge, inanity, platitude -
nonsensenoun
Synonyms:
trifles, things of no consequence or importance
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List of paraphrases for «nonsense»:
absurd, absurdity, rubbish, nonsensical, disparate, stupidity, balderdash, codswallop, ridiculous, poppycock, foolishness, preposterous, folly, bullshit, senseless, fiddlesticks, foolish, claptrap, insane
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Yuri Ganus:
I don’t think we need to… try to find those guilty in other countries and say that the main source of evil is the West or the East, or anyone else, that’s nonsense. The main problem is our culture, the culture inside the sports world.
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Alex Spiro:
We aren’t responding to nonsense, he was issued a ticket.
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Conrad Black:
The idea that I would commit a crime is a nonsense.
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Sam Greenwood/Getty Images:
What’s the answer? Start leaking information or some nonsense? no. No, that’s nonsense. That’s garbage. I’ve been very blessed. I’ve not really dealt with that. I’ve not dealt with, ‘Well, did you hear what he said?’ What? No. Let’s improve on offense and get our quarterback in a position to be successful. That’s our focus.
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Charles Dickens:
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honestly out of countenance any day of the week, if there is anything to get got by it.
Translations for nonsense
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- هراء, لغو, تفاهةArabic
- абсурдностBulgarian
- bestiesa, bajanada, estirabotCatalan, Valencian
- nesmysl, nonsensCzech
- lolWelsh
- nonsensDanish
- Unsinn, Quatsch, Nonsens, BlödsinnGerman
- sensencaĵoEsperanto
- parida, disparates, estupidez, disparate, tontería, tonteríasSpanish
- jampsEstonian
- بیمعنی, چرندPersian
- hölynpöly, toimimaton, jaksoFinnish
- non-sens, sottiseFrench
- sgudal, amaideasScottish Gaelic
- שטויות, חנטרישHebrew
- बकवासHindi
- képtelenségHungarian
- omong kosongIndonesian
- rugl, bullIcelandic
- fola, a vanvera, sciocchezza, assurdità, priva di significato, ridicolaggine, baggianata, balla, scemenza, idiozia, fandonia, senza sensoItalian
- ナンセンス, 馬鹿げた事, でたらめ, 無意味Japanese
- უაზროGeorgian
- 어리석은 소리, 헛소리, 난센스, 무의미Korean
- قسهی هیچوپوچKurdish
- nonsens, flauwekul, onzinDutch
- nonsensPolish
- burrice, besteira, bobagemPortuguese
- nerozii, nonsens, prostie, absurditate, nerozieRomanian
- ерунда, бессмыслица, абсурд, нонсенс, ахинея, вздорRussian
- glupost, nesmisao, besmislica, budalaština, neistinaSerbo-Croatian
- nonsensSwedish
- saçmalıkTurkish
- بکواسUrdu
- 废话Chinese
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нонсенс
- нонсенс
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бред, тарабарщина, абсурд, абракадабра, несообразность, нелепость, бессмыслица, заумь
Словарь русских синонимов.
- нонсенс
Словарь синонимов русского языка. Практический справочник. — М.: Русский язык.
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2011.
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сущ.
• бессмыслица
• абракадабра
• заумь
• бред
• абсурд
• тарабарщина
• набор слов
• бред сивой кобылы
• чушь
• бредятина
• лажа
• чепуха
• ерунда
Словарь русских синонимов. Контекст 5.0 — Информатик.
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- нонсенс
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сущ.
, кол-во синонимов: 11
Словарь синонимов ASIS.
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НОНСЕНС — (английское nonsense, от латинского non нет и sensus смысл), бессмыслица, нелепость, несообразность … Современная энциклопедия
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НОНСЕНС — (англ. nonsense от лат. non нет и sensus смысл), бессмыслица, нелепость, несообразность … Большой Энциклопедический словарь
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НОНСЕНС — [нонсэнс], нескл. (англ. nonsense от лат. non не и sensus смысл) (книжн.). Несообразность, бессмыслица. Толковый словарь Ушакова. Д.Н. Ушаков. 1935 1940 … Толковый словарь Ушакова
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НОНСЕНС — [сэ ], а, муж. (книжн.). Полная бессмыслица. Толковый словарь Ожегова. С.И. Ожегов, Н.Ю. Шведова. 1949 1992 … Толковый словарь Ожегова
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Нонсенс — (англ. nonsense, от лат. non нет и sensus смысл) бессмыслица, нелепость, несообразность. Политическая наука: Словарь справочник. сост. проф пол наук Санжаревский И.И.. 2010 … Политология. Словарь.
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нонсенс — нонсенс. Произносится [нонсэнс] … Словарь трудностей произношения и ударения в современном русском языке
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Нонсенс — (английское nonsense, от латинского non – нет и sensus – смысл), бессмыслица, нелепость, несообразность. … Иллюстрированный энциклопедический словарь
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Нонсенс — Эта статья о философском и филологическом термине «нонсенс». Нонсенс (англ. nonsense от лат. non нет и sensus смысл) высказывание (реже действие), лишённое смысла или само отсутствие смысла, бессмыслица.… … Википедия
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нонсенс — (англ. nonsense лат. non не, нет + sensus смысл, разум) бессмыслица, нелепость. Новый словарь иностранных слов. by EdwART, , 2009. нонсенс [нонсэнс], нескл. [англ. nonsense от лат. non – не и sensus – смысл] (книжн.). Несообразность, бессмыслица … Словарь иностранных слов русского языка
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нонсенс — [сэ], неизм.; м. [англ. nonsense] Книжн. Бессмыслица, нелепость. Несчастная любовь это н.! То, что стало с Россией, есть исторический н. * * * нонсенс (англ. nonsense, от лат. non нет и sensus смысл), бессмыслица, нелепость, несообразность. * * … Энциклопедический словарь

