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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
| Synonyms: | babble, balderdash, baloney, bull*, bunk, drivel, empty talk, foolery, foolishness, gibberish, hogwash, hooey, hot air, jive, malarkey, mumbo jumbo, palaver, prattle, rubbish, silliness, trash* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | drivel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foolish talk |
| Synonyms: | Greek, babble, balderdash, blather, bunk, double-talk, gibberish, gobbledygook, hogwash, hooey, jabber, nonsense, poppycock, prating, rot*, rubbish*, tripe, twaddle |
| Antonyms: | sense |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | guff |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
| Synonyms: | baloney, bull, bunk, bunkum, crap, drivel, flapdoodle, foolishness, garbage, hogwash, hooey, poppycock, rubbish |
| 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: | malarky |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, babble, balderdash, baloney, bombast, bull*, bunk, drivel, foolishness, gibberish, giddiness, hogwash, hot air, jive, poppycock, prattle, rubbish, silliness, trash* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | monkey business |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shenanigans |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, absurdness, antics, buffoonery, carrying-on, clowning around, craziness, disobedience, foolery, foolishness, hanky-panky, high jinks, hokey-pokey, horse feathers, horseplay, inanity, insanity, irresponsibility, ludicrousness, lunacy, misbehavior, mischief, mischief-making, monkeyshine, nonsense, poppycock, prank, silliness, stupidity, tommyrot |
| 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
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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