Nonsense
/ˈnɒnsəns/
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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Definition of Nonsense
noun
- 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."
- An untrue statement.
"He says that I stole his computer, but that's just nonsense."
- That which is silly, illogical and lacks any meaning, reason or value; that which does not make sense.
- Something foolish.
- A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by Edward Lear.
verb
adjective
- 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
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SYNONYMS
absurditycontradictionsillinessstupidityunreasoningfalsehoodlierubbishtoshuntruthbelittledismissdwarf