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. Dwight Watkins:

   I know so many people that just lost their lives over nonsense, and you know they never got a chance to do simple things like get on an airplane. Some of my best friends were murdered while they were still virgins going through puberty. So many grandmas buried. So many sons and daughters. I just, I miss them all.

2. Pat McDonough:

   I think it's nonsense, the overall policy which is coming out of the White House -- it is coming out of President Obama's philosophy of social engineering on steroids -- we're going to make everybody better if we move everyone to Kingsville. … It’s a failure and is destined to fail.

3. Michael Schachter:

   He did things because he wanted to, the idea that Tom Barrack was controlled by anybody is nonsense.

4. Van Jones:

   I have a kid, seven years old, he can't even watch TV. I used to say, 'I don't want you watching the Kardashians, I want you watching the news so you can learn something,' watching all this nonsense in your party, he turns around and says, 'Dad you're a liar.' He doesn't even know what the word means. But he sees so much vitriol from your party he brings that into our house.

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.