Nonsense Definition

nŏnsĕns, -səns
noun
Words or actions that convey an absurd meaning or no meaning at all.
Webster's New World
Subject matter, behavior, or language that is foolish or absurd.
American Heritage
Things of relatively no importance or value; trivialities.
Webster's New World
Extravagant foolishness or frivolity.
A clown's exuberant nonsense.
American Heritage
Impudent, foolish, or evasive behavior.
Webster's New World
adjective
Of or relating to a mutation in a structural gene that changes a nucleotide triplet into a stop codon, thus prematurely terminating the polypeptide chain during protein synthesis.
American Heritage Medicine
Designating or of syllables or words arranged arbitrarily and without meaning.
Webster's New World
Of or designating verse, poetry, or other literary composition consisting of words or syllables that convey an absurd meaning or no meaning at all.
Webster's New World
interjection
Used to express disagreement or exasperation.
American Heritage
How foolish; how absurd.
Webster's New World
verb
To make nonsense of.
Wiktionary
To attempt to dismiss as nonsense.
Wiktionary
(intransitive) To joke around, to waste time.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Nonsense

Noun

Singular:
nonsense
Plural:
nonsenses

Origin of Nonsense

  • non- +"Ž sense

    From Wiktionary

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