Related Searches
Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | foolishness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | idiocy, nonsense |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, absurdness, bunk, carrying-on, claptrap, craziness, dumb trick, folly, fool trick, foolery, horse feathers, impracticality, imprudence, inanity, indiscretion, insanity, insensibility, irrationality, irresponsibility, ludicrousness, lunacy, mistake, poppycock, preposterousness, rubbish*, senselessness, silliness, stupidity, tommyrot, twaddle, unreasonableness, unwiseness, weakness, witlessness |
| Antonyms: | care, carefulness, caution, circumspection, prudence, sense, seriousness, thoughtfulness, wiseness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gibberish |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense talk |
| Synonyms: | babble, balderdash, blah-blah, blather, chatter, claptrap, double talk, drivel, gobbledygook, hocus-pocus, jabber, jargon, mumbo jumbo, palaver*, prattle, scat, twaddle, yammer |
| Antonyms: | sense |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nonsense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | craziness, ridiculousness |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, babble, balderdash, baloney, bananas, bombast, bull*, bunk, claptrap, drivel, fatuity, flightiness, folly, foolishness, fun, gibberish, giddiness, hogwash, hooey, hot air, imprudence, inanity, irrationality, jazz, jest, jive, joke, ludicrousness, madness, mumbo jumbo, palaver, poppycock, prattle, pretense, ranting, rashness, rot, rubbish, scrawl, scribble, senselessness, silliness, soft soap, stupidity, thoughtlessness, trash*, tripe |
| Antonyms: | clarity, common sense, fact, intelligibility, sense, truth, understanding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | garbage, nonsense |
| Synonyms: | balderdash, bilge, bunk, claptrap, drivel, foolishness, guff, hogwash, hooey, moonshine, poppycock, rubbish, silliness, stuff and nonsense, tommyrot |
| Antonyms: | truth |
| Main Entry: | balderdash |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
| Synonyms: | bosh, bull, bunk, claptrap, crock, drivel, flummery, fudge, fustian, jargon, malarkey, moonshine, poppycock, rigmarole, rot, trash, tripe, twaddle |
| Main Entry: | flatulence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pomposity |
| Synonyms: | babble, boasting, bombast, claptrap, empty talk, fustian, hot air, idle words, turgidity, twaddle, windiness |
| Main Entry: | bull |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
| Synonyms: | balderdash, baloney, bilge, bunkum, claptrap, crap, hogwash, rubbish, trash |
| Antonyms: | fact, truth |
| Main Entry: | mumbo jumbo |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
| Synonyms: | claptrap, double-talk, empty talk, gibberish, gobbledygook, hocus-pocus, hogwash, mere words, obscuration |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2013 Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
