Synonyms for nonsense
ˈnɒn sɛns, -sənsnon·sense

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1. nonsenseverb

   Synonyms:
   pooh-pooh, rubbish

2. nonsenseverb

   Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or seem to have no meaning.

   After my father had a stroke, every time he tried to talk, it sounded like nonsense.

   Synonyms:
   pooh-pooh, rubbish

3. nonsenseverb

   To attempt to dismiss as nonsense.

   He says that I stole his computer, but that's just nonsense.

   Synonyms:
   rubbish, pooh-pooh

4. nonsenseverb

   To joke around, to waste time

   Synonyms:
   rubbish, pooh-pooh

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1. nonsense

   Synonyms:
   absurdity, contradiction, demonstration, paradox, sophism

   Antonyms:
   axiom, truism

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1. nonsense

   Synonyms:
   absurdity, trash, folly, pretense, jest, balderdash

   Antonyms:
   sense, wisdom, truth, fact, gravity, philosophy, science, reason

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1. nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokumnoun

   a message that seems to convey no meaning

   Synonyms:
   folderal, bunkum, hogwash, feed bunk, gimcrack, guff, bunk, frill, trumpery, nonsensicality, buncombe, meaninglessness, built in bed, falderol, hokum, bunk bed, gimcrackery, rot, berth

   Antonyms:
   meaningful

2. folderal, falderol, frill, gimcrackery, gimcrack, nonsense, trumperyadjective

   ornamental objects of no great value

   Synonyms:
   flounce, folderal, gimcrackery, trash, gimcrack, codswallop, bunk, frill, rubbish, wish-wash, trumpery, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, ruff, applesauce, folderol, falderol, hokum, furbelow, ruffle, tripe

   Antonyms:
   meaningful

3. nonsense(a), nonsensicaladjective

   having no intelligible meaning

   "nonsense syllables"; "a nonsensical jumble of words"

   Antonyms:
   meaningful

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1. nonsensenoun

   Synonyms:
   folly, absurdity, stuff, trash, moonshine, twaddle, balderdash, fudge, inanity, platitude

2. nonsensenoun

   Synonyms:
   trifles, things of no consequence or importance

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1. nonsensenoun

   Synonyms:
   absurdity, twaddle, bosh, fudge, silliness, balderdash, moonshine, amphigory, rigmarole

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1. List of paraphrases for "nonsense":

   absurd, absurdity, rubbish, nonsensical, disparate, stupidity, balderdash, codswallop, ridiculous, poppycock, foolishness, preposterous, folly, bullshit, senseless, fiddlesticks, foolish, claptrap, insane

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1. George Santayana:

   Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

2. The PYD:

   They don't even accept The PYD as a terrorist organization. What kind of nonsense is this ? the West still has the mentality of' My terrorist is good, President Tayyip Erdogan is bad.'.

3. Thomas Cox:

   This isn't just technical nonsense. This is a really powerful step in restoring the integrity of the real estate title system.

4. Mohamed Abdel Ghaffar:

   This is all nonsense. If I had a problem would any of these candidates fix it? No. I have never seen a member of parliament so much as stop a street fight. They are all failures and will do nothing for us.

5. Notis Mitarachi:

   Any suggestion they did, or indeed were pushed back into Turkey is utter nonsense, rather than pushing out unfounded claims Turkey needs to live up to its obligations and work to prevent these dangerous journeys.