NONSENSE

folderal, falderol, frill, gimcrackery, gimcrack, nonsense, trumpery

(noun) ornamental objects of no great value

nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum

(noun) a message that seems to convey no meaning

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

nonsense (usually uncountable, plural nonsenses)

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

An untrue statement.

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

Something foolish.

(literature) A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by Edward Lear.

(biology) A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.

Synonyms

• See nonsense

• Synonyms: falsehood, lie, untruth, absurdity, rubbish, tosh

• Synonyms: absurdity, silliness, contradiction, stupidity, unreasoning

Verb

nonsense (third-person singular simple present nonsenses, present participle nonsensing, simple past and past participle nonsensed)

To make nonsense of;

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

(intransitive) To joke around, to waste time

Synonyms

• Synonyms: belittle, dwarf, dismiss,

Adjective

nonsense (comparative more nonsense, superlative most nonsense)

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

nonsensical

Interjection

nonsense

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

Source: Wiktionary

Non"sense, n. Etym: [Pref. non- + sense: cf. F. nonsens.]

1. That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity.

2. Trifles; things of no importance. Nonsense verses, lines made by taking any words which occur, but especially certain words which it is desired to recollect, and arranging them without reference to anything but the measure, so that the rhythm of the lines may aid in recalling the remembrance of the words.

Syn.

– Folly; silliness; absurdity; trash; balderdash.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition