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nonsense
[ non-sens, -suhns ]
noun
- 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
- conduct, action, etc., that is senseless, foolish, or absurd:
to have tolerated enough nonsense.
- impudent, insubordinate, or otherwise objectionable behavior:
He doesn't have to take that nonsense from you.
- something absurd or fatuous:
the utter nonsense of such a suggestion.
- anything of trifling importance or of little or no use.
- Genetics. a DNA sequence that does not code for an amino acid and is not transcribed ( sense ).
nonsense
/ nɒnˈsɛnsɪkəl; ˈnɒnsəns /
noun
- something that has or makes no sense; unintelligible language; drivel
- conduct or action that is absurd
- foolish or evasive behaviour or manners
she'll stand no nonsense
- See no-nonsense
- things of little or no value or importance; trash
interjection
- an exclamation of disagreement
nonsense
/ nŏn′sĕns′ /
- 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.
- See more at point mutation
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Derived Forms
- nonˈsensically, adverb
- nonˈsensicalness, noun
- nonsensical, adjective
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Other Words From
- non·sen·si·cal [non-, sen, -si-k, uh, l], adjective
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Idioms and Phrases
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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