Nonsense
['nɒns(ə)ns] or ['nɑnsɛns]
Definition
(noun.) a message that seems to convey no meaning.
(adj.) having no intelligible meaning; 'nonsense syllables'; 'a nonsensical jumble of words' .
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Definition
(n.) That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity.
(n.) Trifles; things of no importance.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Folly, absurdity, stuff, trash, moonshine, twaddle, balderdash, fudge, inanity, platitude.[2]. Trifles, things of no consequence or importance.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Absurdity, trash, folly, pretense, jest, balderdash
ANT:Sense, wisdom, truth, fact, gravity, philosophy, science, reason
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Definition
n. that which has no sense: language without meaning: absurdity: trifles.—adj. Nonsens′ical without sense: absurd.—ns. Nonsensical′ity Nonsens′icalness.—adv. Nonsens′ically.—Nonsense name an arbitrarily coined name for mnemonic purposes &c.; Nonsense verses verses perfect in form but without any connected sense being merely exercises in metre &c.: verses intentionally absurd like that of the Jabberwock in Through the Looking-glass.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.
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Examples
- To talk about training a power, mental or physical, in general, apart from the subject matter involved in its exercise, is nonsense. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Lily received this with fresh appreciation; his nonsense was like the bubbling of her inner mood. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Shirley, you talk nonsense. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Well, I won't go to any more of their cursed nonsense, Tom, said St. Clare; on my honor, I won't. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Nonsense, Christian. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It's all nonsense to talk to me about slaves _enjoying_ all this! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- When do you mean to leave off talking nonsense? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Nonsense,' replied Mr. Weller. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I have no softness there, no--sympathy--sentiment--nonsense. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- But (lowering her voice)nobody speaks except ourselves, and it is rather too much to be talking nonsense for the entertainment of seven silent people. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I swallowed some lavender-drops and tried to write: blotted twenty sheets of paper with unintelligible nonsense and wetted them with my tears. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Being lofty about the passing fad and the ephemeral outcry is all very well in the biographies of dead men, but rank nonsense in the rulers of real ones. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- This is all nonsense. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I'll write--just any cheerful nonsense that comes into my head--shall I? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- No doubt, thought I, it is all nonsense. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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