Nonsensic

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Rare form of nonsensical. form-of, rare

    "She saw only that he was old, and worn as he had been on the last day of the trial, bludgeoned to half-consciousness by the nonsensic clamour; that his grandeur had remained; he stood so straight, so large in that old coat of his, the one he had worn to travel here from Paris."

Example

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"She saw only that he was old, and worn as he had been on the last day of the trial, bludgeoned to half-consciousness by the nonsensic clamour; that his grandeur had remained; he stood so straight, so large in that old coat of his, the one he had worn to travel here from Paris."

Etymology

From nonsense + -ic.

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