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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ridiculous situation or behavior |
| Synonyms: | BS, applesauce, bull*, crap, craziness, farce, flapdoodle, folly, foolishness, hot air, idiocy, illogicality, illogicalness, improbability, inanity, incongruity, insanity, irrationality, jazz, jive, ludicrousness, ridiculousness, senselessness, silliness, stupidity, unreasonableness |
| Antonyms: | logic, reason, reasonableness, sense |
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| Main Entry: | hogwash |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
| Synonyms: | BS, absurdity, balderdash, baloney, bull*, bunk, debris, drivel*, foolishness, hokum, hooey, horsefeathers, poppycock, refuse, ridiculousness, rot, rubbish, trash, twaddle |
| Antonyms: | sense, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | humbug |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
| Synonyms: | BS, babble, balderdash, baloney, bull*, bunk, drivel, empty talk, gibberish, hogwash, hooey, hot air, poppycock, pretense, rubbish, silliness, trash* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tripe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense, rubbish |
| Synonyms: | BS, balderdash, baloney, bilge, bosh, bull*, bunk, drivel, garbage, gibberish, hogwash, hooey, hot air, poppycock, trash |
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| Main Entry: | twaddle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
| Synonyms: | BS, babble, balderdash, baloney, bull, bunk, chatter, crap, drivel, foolishness, gibberish, hogwash, hooey, hot air, idle talk, jive, mumbo jumbo, palaver, poppycock, prattle, rubbish, silliness, stultiloquence, trash*, tripe |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bachelor's degree |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | undergraduate degree |
| Synonyms: | BA, BS, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, baccalaureate |
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| Concept: | Absurdity. |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
absurdity, absurdness; imbecility; alogy, nonsense; paradox, inconsistency; stultiloquy, stultiloquence; nugacity., blunder, muddle, bull; Irishism, Hibernicism; slipslop; anticlimax, bathos; sophism., farce, galimathias, amphigouri, rhapsody; farrago (disorder); betise; extravagance, romance; sciamachy., sell, pun, verbal quibble, macaronic., jargon, fustian, twaddle (no meaning) [more]; exaggeration; moonshine, stuff; mare's nest, quibble, self-delusion., vagary, tomfoolery, mummery, monkey trick, boutade, escapade.
-verbs
play the fool; talk nonsense, parler a tort et a travess; battre la campagne; be absurd
-adjectives
absurd, nonsensical, preposterous, egregious, senseless, inconsistent, ridiculous, extravagant, quibbling; self-annulling, self-contradictory; macaronic, punning., foolish; sophistical; unmeaning; without rhyme or reason; fantastic.
-phrases
credat Judaeus Apella [Horace]; tell it to the marines.
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| Antonyms: | maxim |
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| Concept: | [Irregularity of form.] Distortion. |
| Category: | 1. General form |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
distortion, detortion, contortion; twist, crookedness (obliquity); grimace; deformity; malformation, malconformation; harelip; monstrosity, misproportion, want of symmetry, anamorphosis; ugliness; talipes; teratology.
-verbs
distort, contort, twist, warp, wrest, writhe, make faces, deform, misshape.
-adjectives
distorted; out of shape, irregular, unsymmetric, awry, wry, askew, crooked; not true, not straight; on one side, crump, deformed; harelipped; misshapen, misbegotten; misproportioned, ill proportioned; ill-made; grotesque, crooked as a ram's horn; camel backed, hump backed, hunch backed, bunch backed, crook backed; bandy; bandy legged, bow legged; bow kneed, knock kneed; splay footed, club footed; round shouldered; snub nosed; curtailed of one's fair proportions; stumpy (short); gaunt (thin); bloated; scalene; simous; taliped, talipedic.
-adverbs
all manner of ways.
-phrases
crooked as a Virginia fence [U.S.].
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| Antonyms: | symmetry |
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