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Nonsense

/ˈnɒnsəns/

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

📖 Definitions of "Nonsense"

noun
  1. 1

    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."

  2. 2

    An untrue statement.

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

  3. 3

    That which is silly, illogical and lacks any meaning, reason or value; that which does not make sense.

  4. 4

    Something foolish.

verb
  1. 1

    To make nonsense of;

  2. 2

    To attempt to dismiss as nonsense; to ignore or belittle the significance of something; to render unimportant or puny.

  3. 3

    To joke around, to waste time

adjective
  1. 1

    Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon (not coding for an amino-acid).

  2. 2

    Nonsensical

interjection
  1. 1

    An emphatic rejection of something one has just heard and does not believe or agree with.

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