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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, babble, balderdash, baloney, bananas, blather, bombast, bull*, bunk, bunkum, claptrap, drivel, fatuity, flightiness, folly, foolishness, fun, garbage, gibberish, giddiness, hogwash, hooey, hot air, idiocy, imprudence, inanity, irrationality, jazz, jest, jive, joke, ludicrousness, madness, mumbo jumbo, palaver*, piffle, poppycock, prattle, pretense, ranting, rashness, rigmarole, rot, rubbish*, scrawl, scribble, senselessness, silliness, soft soap, stupidity, thoughtlessness, tomfoolery, trash*, tripe, twaddle |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nonsense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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absurd, egregious, extravagant, foolish, inconsistent, macaronic, nonsensical, preposterous, punning, quibbling, ridiculous, senseless, sophistical, unmeaning
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| Concept: | Absurdity. |
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-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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