Nonsense

//ˈnɒn.səns//

Synonyms for "nonsense" (303 found)

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Closest matches (61)

Strong matches (91)

Related words (151)

greek guff hocus pocus hocus-pocus hogwash hokum hooey horsefeathers horseplay hot air humbug inanity insanity jabber jabberwocky jargon jazz jesting jiggery-pokery jokes

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Noun(71 words)

greek guff gup hoax hocus-pocus hogwash hooey horlicks horse cock horse hockey horse piss horse puckey horsefeathers horseshit humbug irish bull jabber jargon jibber-jabber jimjam

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Intj(1 words)

harumph

Adjective(1 words)

nonsensical

Verb(2 words)

pooh-pooh rubbish

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

11 relation types

More general

8 entries

content decoration message ornament ornamentation statement subject matter substance

More specific

1 entries

amphigory

Antonyms

1 entries

sensible

Synonyms

2 entries

falderal nonsensical

Related terms

25 entries

Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 497. Absurdity Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 517. Unmeaningness absolute absurd chatter childish code complete downright false foolish fustian malaprop malapropism missense non-sense

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derived

19 entries

QAnonsense abstract nonsense beyonsense diagnonsense no-nonsense non-nonsense nonnonsense nonsense mutation nonsense syndrome nonsense word nonsense-mediated decay nonsensely nonsensic nonsensical nonsensification nonsensify

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distinct from

1 entries

sensible

has context

3 entries

biochemistry biology literature

is a

1 entries

message

related to

16 entries

garbled garbled stuff illogical missense non sense nonsensical reason ridiculous rubbish sense silliness silly stuff stuff and utter utter rubbish

similar

5 entries

drivel gibberish meaningless nonmeaningful prattle

Translations

299 translations across 62 languages.

Albanian

4 entries

dokrra noun (meaningless words)
gjepura noun (meaningless words)
palidhje noun (meaningless words)
ádra noun (meaningless words)

Ancient Greek

1 entries

φλυαρία noun (meaningless words)

Arabic

2 entries

لَغْو noun (meaningless words)
هُرَاء noun (meaningless words)

Armenian

2 entries

աբսուրդ noun (meaningless words)
անհեթեթություն noun (meaningless words)

Azerbaijani

3 entries

cəfəngiyat noun (meaningless words)
tartan-partan noun (meaningless words)
çərən-pərən noun (meaningless words)

Belarusian

4 entries

абсу́рд noun (meaningless words)
бязглу́здзіца noun (meaningless words)
бяссэ́нсіца noun (meaningless words)
но́нсэнс noun (meaningless words)

Bulgarian

2 entries

глупости intj (emphatic rejection)
безсмислица noun (meaningless words)

Catalan

4 entries

bajanada noun (meaningless words)
bestiesa noun (meaningless words)
despropòsit noun (untrue statement)
estirabot noun (meaningless words)

Central Kurdish

1 entries

قسەی ھیچوپوچ noun (meaningless words)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

無義 /无义 adj (resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon)
廢話 /废话 noun (meaningless words)
廢話 /废话 noun (untrue statement)
狗屁 noun (meaningless words)

Cornish

2 entries

flows noun (meaningless words)
flows noun (untrue statement)

Czech

3 entries

nesmysl noun (meaningless words)
nesmysl noun (untrue statement)
nonsens noun (type of poetry)

Danish

4 entries

nonsens noun (meaningless words)
nonsens noun (untrue statement)
sludder noun (meaningless words)
vrøvl noun (meaningless words)

Dutch

4 entries

lariekoek intj (emphatic rejection)
onzin intj (emphatic rejection)
flauwekul noun (meaningless words)
nonsens noun (meaningless words)

Esperanto

4 entries

dirlididi intj (emphatic rejection)
absurdaĵo noun (meaningless words)
sensencaĵo noun (meaningless words)
sensencaĵo noun (untrue statement)

Estonian

1 entries

jamps noun (meaningless words)

Faroese

3 entries

møsn noun (meaningless words)
tvætl noun (meaningless words)
tvætl noun (untrue statement)

Finnish

4 entries

hölynpöly noun (meaningless words)
hölynpöly noun (untrue statement)
lööperi noun (untrue statement)
nonsense noun (type of poetry)

French

4 entries

non-sens adj (resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon)
n'importe quoi ! intj (emphatic rejection)
absurdité noun (meaningless words)
bêtise noun (meaningless words)

Galician

4 entries

arnada noun (meaningless words)
asneira noun (untrue statement)
babosada noun (untrue statement)
doudice noun (meaningless words)

Georgian

4 entries

აბდაუბდა noun (meaningless words)
ნონსენსი noun (meaningless words)
სისულელე noun (meaningless words)
სისულელე noun (something foolish)

German

4 entries

papperlapapp intj (emphatic rejection)
Blödsinn noun (meaningless words)
Nonsens noun (meaningless words)
Nonsens noun (untrue statement)

Greek

2 entries

ανοησίες noun (meaningless words)
βλακείες noun (meaningless words)

Hebrew

3 entries

איגיון noun (type of poetry)
חנטריש noun (meaningless words)
שטויות noun (meaningless words)

Hindi

1 entries

बकवास noun (meaningless words)

Hungarian

4 entries

badarság! intj (emphatic rejection)
hiszi a piszi! intj (emphatic rejection)
képtelenség! intj (emphatic rejection)
lárifári! intj (emphatic rejection)

Icelandic

2 entries

bull noun (meaningless words)
rugl noun (meaningless words)

Indonesian

2 entries

nonsens noun (meaningless words)
omong kosong noun (meaningless words)

Irish

4 entries

amaidí noun (meaningless words)
brilléis noun (meaningless words)
seafóid noun (meaningless words)
áiféis noun (meaningless words)

Italian

4 entries

senza senso adj (resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon)
a vanvera noun (meaningless words)
assurdità noun (meaningless words)
baggianata noun (untrue statement)

Japanese

4 entries

でたらめ noun (untrue statement)
ナンセンス noun (meaningless words)
無意味 noun (meaningless words)
馬鹿げた事 noun (meaningless words)

Kabuverdianu

1 entries

asnera noun (untrue statement)

Kazakh

2 entries

сандырақ noun (meaningless words)
шатпақ noun (meaningless words)

Khmer

2 entries

សំដីរហាច noun (meaningless words)
អំពើភ្លីភ្លើ noun (meaningless words)

Korean

4 entries

개소리 noun (meaningless words)
난센스 noun (meaningless words)
무의미 noun (meaningless words)
어리석은 소리 noun (meaningless words)

Latin

4 entries

gerrae! intj (emphatic rejection)
nugae! intj (emphatic rejection)
gerrae noun (meaningless words)
muscerdae noun (meaningless words)

Macedonian

3 entries

бесми́слица noun (meaningless words)
глу́пост noun (meaningless words)
глу́пост noun (untrue statement)

Malayalam

2 entries

അസംബന്ധം noun (meaningless words)
അസംബന്ധം noun (untrue statement)

Manchu

1 entries

ᡶᡳᠶᠣᡴᠣᠨ noun (meaningless words)

Māori

4 entries

kohe noun (meaningless words)
kutukutuahi noun (meaningless words)
kūrapa noun (meaningless words)
ngutungutuahi noun (meaningless words)

Norwegian Bokmål

4 entries

nonsens noun (meaningless words)
snikksnakk noun (meaningless words)
tullprat noun (meaningless words)
vrøvl noun (meaningless words)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries

صاچمه noun (meaningless words)

Persian

4 entries

بیمعنی noun (meaningless words)
مهمل noun (meaningless words)
چرت noun (meaningless words)
چرند noun (meaningless words)

Polish

4 entries

absurd noun (meaningless words)
androny noun (meaningless words)
bajdura noun (meaningless words)
bezsens noun (meaningless words)

Portuguese

4 entries

sem sentido adj (resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon)
besteira noun (meaningless words)
besteira noun (untrue statement)
bobagem noun (meaningless words)

Romanian

4 entries

absurditate noun (meaningless words)
nerozie noun (untrue statement)
nerozii noun (untrue statement)
nonsens noun (meaningless words)

Russian

4 entries

абсу́рд noun (meaningless words)
ахине́я noun (meaningless words)
ахине́я noun (untrue statement)
бессмы́слица noun (meaningless words)

Scottish Gaelic

4 entries

amaideas noun (meaningless words)
amaideas noun (untrue statement)
sgudal noun (meaningless words)
sgudal noun (untrue statement)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

budaláština noun (untrue statement)
bèsmislica noun (meaningless words)
glúpōst noun (meaningless words)
nesmisao noun (untrue statement)

Slovak

1 entries

nezmysel noun (meaningless words)

Spanish

4 entries

sin sentido adj (resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon)
que tontería / tontera intj (emphatic rejection)
tonteras intj (emphatic rejection)
tonterías intj (emphatic rejection)

Swahili

1 entries

upuuzi noun (meaningless words)

Swedish

3 entries

nonsens noun (meaningless words)
nonsens noun (untrue statement)
strunt noun (meaningless words)

Tagalog

1 entries

sagimuymoy noun (meaningless words)

Tajik

1 entries

ҳарза noun (meaningless words)

Tatar

2 entries

сафсата noun (meaningless words)
сафсата noun (untrue statement)

Thai

2 entries

การเพ้อเจ้อ noun (meaningless words)
ความเพ้อเจ้อ noun (meaningless words)

Tibetan

4 entries

ཆོ་མེད noun (meaningless words)
ཆོ་མེད noun (something foolish)
བྱབ་ཆུང noun (meaningless words)
བྱབ་ཆུང noun (something foolish)

Turkish

3 entries

palavra noun (untrue statement)
saçmalık noun (meaningless words)
saçmalık noun (untrue statement)

Ukrainian

4 entries

абсу́рд noun (meaningless words)
безглу́здя noun (meaningless words)
дурни́ця noun (meaningless words)
но́нсенс noun (meaningless words)

Urdu

1 entries

بکواس noun (meaningless words)

Welsh

2 entries

lol noun (meaningless words)
lol noun (untrue statement)

Sample sentences

20 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Don't listen to him, he's talking nonsense.

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It is time you put a stop to this nonsense.

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I am fed up with your nonsense.

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Stop your nonsense!

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