Nonsensical
[nɒn'sensɪk(ə)l] or [nɑn'sɛnsɪkl]
Definition
(a.) Without sense; unmeaning; absurb; foolish; irrational; preposterous.
Typist: Nola
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Absurd, foolish, silly, senseless, insensate, stupid, ill-judged, unreasonable, irrational, preposterous, unmeaning, frivolous, trifling.
Typist: Winfred
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See FOOLISH]
Checker: Mollie
Examples
- It's so nonsensical! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It's a nonsensical notion of mine, and I'm not going to give up to it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I will have you BOTH go, said Mrs. Dashwood; these objections are nonsensical. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Her mother only scolded her for being nonsensical. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Wasn't that nonsensical? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- My reflections were interrupted by my servant, who brought me a letter from George Brummell, full of nonsensical vows and professions. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- No more nonsensical expression is conceivable in sociology than the term primitive communism. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Don't be nonsensical, now. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He has started some nonsensical objection to his wife being one of the witnesses, and has obliged me to ask you to join us in the library. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Very nonsensical to come at all! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
Checker: Mollie