nonsense

noun nonsenses · nonsence · non-sense

1. uncountable, usually Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning. After my father had a stroke, every time he tried to talk, it sounded like nonsense.
2. uncountable, usually An untrue statement. You have seen it for yourselves in the play by Aristophanes, where Socrates goes whirling round, proclaiming that he is walking on air, and uttering a great deal of other nonsense about things of which I know nothing whatsoever.

   Similar: falsehood, lie, untruth, absurdity, rubbish, tosh

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

   Similar: absurdity, silliness, contradiction, stupidity, unreasoning

4. uncountable, usually Something foolish. and central banks lend vast sums against marshmallow backed securities, or other nonsenses creative bankers dreamed up.
5. uncountable, usually A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by Edward Lear.
6. uncountable, usually A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.

Similar: all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, apple grease, applesauce, bafflegab, balderdash, balls, baloney, banana oil, Bandini, baragouin, batcrap, batshit, bilgewater, blah, blah-blah, blah-blah-blah, blather, blatherskite, bobbins, bollocks, bosh, BS, bull, bullcrap, bulldust, bull feathers, bullshit, bullspeak, bunk

verb nonsenses · nonsensing · nonsensed · nonsence · non-sense

1. To make nonsense of; At the Haymarket all this is nonsensed by an endeavor to steer between Mr. Stanley Weyman's rights as author of the story and the prescriptive right of the leading actor to fight popularly and heroically against heavy odds.
2. To attempt to dismiss as nonsense; to ignore or belittle the significance of something; to render unimportant or puny. "They haven't nonsensed these workouts. They've taken them and used them very well. I didn't know how they'd respond, but they've responded."

   Similar: belittle, dismiss, pooh-pooh, rubbish

3. intransitive To joke around, to waste time When he meant "go and get one" he said to go and get one, with no nonsensing around about "liking" to get one.

adjective more nonsense · most nonsense · nonsence · non-sense

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

interjection nonsence · non-sense

1. An emphatic rejection of something one has just heard and does not believe or agree with. The operators present this as a passenger benefit by claiming it provides early notice. Nonsense! This just means that passengers can't find any information about the train they thought they were catching. It simply disappears.