nonsense
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
nonsense (uncountable)
- Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning.
- After my father had a stroke, every time he tried to talk, it sounded like nonsense.
- An untrue statement.
- He says that I stole his computer, but that's just nonsense.
- That which is silly, illogical and lacks any meaning, reason or value; that which does not make sense.
- Something foolish.
- (literature) A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by Edward Lear.
- (biology) A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.
- See Thesaurus:nonsense
- Synonyms: falsehood, lie, untruth, absurdity, rubbish, tosh
- Synonyms: absurdity, silliness, contradiction, stupidity, unreasoning
- French: bêtise, absurdité
- German: Blödsinn, Nonsens, (colloquial) Quatsch, Unsinn, Tüddelkram
- Italian: sciocchezza, senza senso, priva di significato, ridicolaggine, a vanvera, idiozia, assurdità, cavolata, corbelleria, stupidaggine, cazzata, fesseria, coglionata, minchiata
- Portuguese: besteira, bobagem, burrice, disparate
- Russian: вздор
- Spanish: tontería, tontada, tontuna, disparate, parida, pamplinas, pamema, sandez, sinsentido, despropósito
- French: sottise (s), n'importe quoi, connerie
- German: Nonsens, Unsinn
- Italian: balla, fandonia, scemenza, fola, baggianata
- Portuguese: besteira, bobagem, burrice
- Russian: вздор
- Spanish: tonterías, estupidez, contrasentido, desbarro
- French: non-sens
nonsense (nonsenses, present participle nonsensing; past and past participle nonsensed)
- To make nonsense of;
- To attempt to dismiss as nonsense; to ignore or belittle the significance of something; to render unimportant or puny.
- (intransitive) To joke around, to waste time
- Synonyms: belittle, dwarf, dismiss,
nonsense
- (biochemistry) Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon (not coding for an amino-acid).
- nonsensical
- French: non-sens
- Italian: senza senso
- Portuguese: sem sentido
- Spanish: sin sentido
- An emphatic rejection of something one has just heard and does not believe or agree with.
- French: n'importe quoi !
- German: papperlapapp
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