What is another word for nonsense?
Pronunciation:
[ nˈɒnsəns], [ nˈɒnsəns], [ n_ˈɒ_n_s_ə_n_s]
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Similar words for nonsense:
- all (adjective)
- other relevant words (interjection)
- absurdity (noun)
- applesauce (noun)
- comicality (noun)
- craziness (noun)
- deception (noun)
- double Dutch (noun)
- drivel (noun)
- falderal (noun)
- folderol (noun)
- fooling (noun)
- foolishness (noun)
- frills (noun)
- frivolity (noun)
- fun (noun)
- gimcrackery (noun)
- gimcracks (noun)
- hocus-pocus (noun)
- imbecility (noun)
- incoherence (noun)
- incomprehensible talk or writing (noun)
- jabberwocky (noun)
- jargon (noun)
- meaningless (noun)
- minutia (noun)
- monkey business (noun)
- nonsense (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- paradox (noun)
- pomposity (noun)
- rashness (noun)
- shenanigans (noun)
- small potatoes (noun)
- sport (noun)
- stupidity (noun)
- talk (noun)
- trash (noun)
- unmeaningness (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- cajolery
- drivel
- pomposity
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Nonsense:
adj.
• all (adjective)interj.
• Other relevant words: (interjection)n.
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- ill-defined,
- claptrap,
- hollow,
- garbage,
- palaver,
- bombast,
- prattle,
- scribble,
- gas,
- poppycock,
- rant,
- soft soap,
- gab,
- scrawl,
- ambiguity,
- pretense,
- bull.
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- giddiness,
- madness,
- extravagance,
- rashness,
- sin,
- evil,
- wrong,
- excess,
- iniquity,
- thoughtlessness,
- decadence,
- depravity,
- imprudence,
- infatuation,
- flightiness,
- unsteadiness,
- immorality,
- enormity,
- steadiness,
- villainy,
- consideration.
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- ability.
- craziness,
- outlandishness,
- folly,
- inanity,
- eccentricity,
- implausibility,
- meaninglessness,
- invalidity,
- foolishness,
- contradiction,
- irrationality,
- impossibility,
- incongruity,
- bizarreness,
- ludicrousness,
- baloney,
- anachronism,
- farce,
- Self-contradiction,
- idiocy,
- inconsistency,
- absurdity,
- balderdash.
- lightness,
- gaiety,
- levity,
- flippancy,
- Coquetting,
- toying,
- volatility,
- flirting,
- lightheartedness,
- whimsy,
- game,
- Dallying,
- play.
- laughter,
- diversion,
- romp,
- entertainment,
- rejoicing,
- holiday,
- mirth,
- gambol,
- joy,
- frolic,
- merrymaking,
- celebration,
- pleasure,
- merriment,
- distraction,
- big time,
- jollity,
- picnic,
- cheer,
- riot,
- clowning,
- escapade,
- solace,
- treat,
- festivity,
- playfulness,
- recreation,
- enjoyment,
- grins,
- jocularity,
- Romping.
- chicanery,
- delusion,
- sleight of hand,
- mummery,
- conjuring,
- cant,
- magic,
- trickery,
- trick,
- fraud,
- smoke and mirrors,
- juggling,
- incantation,
- abracadabra,
- legerdemain,
- deception,
- magic words,
- hoax,
- swindle,
- artifice,
- mystification,
- deceit,
- Hocus,
- chant,
- charm,
- Occultism,
- cheating,
- spell,
- magic word,
- open sesame,
- imposture,
- Hocuspocus,
- Mummeries.
- in-congruities,
- in congruities,
- in-coherence,
- in coherence,
- unintelligibilities,
- un intelligibilities,
- un intelligibility,
- in coherences,
- in-coherences,
- un-intelligibilities,
- in congruity,
- un-intelligibility,
- in-congruity.
- patois,
- colloquialism,
- vocabulary,
- tongue,
- usage,
- neologism,
- slang,
- vernacular,
- parlance,
- fustian,
- argot,
- idiom,
- buzzwords,
- patter,
- banality,
- insipidity.
- Minutiae,
- hokum,
- carrying-on,
- silliness,
- nonsense,
- trite language,
- rowdiness,
- street talk,
- monkey business,
- drivel,
- fatuousness,
- relaxation,
- doublespeak,
- mockery,
- zaniness,
- Clownishness,
- fooling around,
- roughhousing,
- doltishness,
- spoofing,
- battiness,
- frivolousness,
- whoopee,
- incoherence,
- trash,
- puerility,
- clowning around,
- good times,
- crap,
- mischief-making,
- jabberwocky,
- pastime,
- mutterings,
- Fooleries,
- fine points,
- irresponsibility,
- jargon,
- junketing,
- paradox,
- buffoonery,
- whimsicality,
- superficialities,
- frivolity,
- witlessness,
- nonsensicality,
- slanguage,
- jive,
- feeblemindedness,
- shenanigans,
- re-creations,
- Fooling,
- nuttiness,
- hogwash,
- flakiness,
- wackiness,
- Fribble,
- lingo,
- whimsicalities,
- blithers,
- nitwittedness,
- ignorance,
- blatherskite,
- dirty trick,
- fine point,
- idle talk,
- injudiciousness,
- Puerilities,
- joking,
- stupidity,
- Skylarking,
- senselessness,
- malarkey,
- comicalness,
- gushings,
- blather,
- newspeak,
- making light,
- superficiality,
- Laughters,
- talk,
- pomposity,
- stupidness,
- double talk,
- hokey-pokey,
- absurdness,
- jest,
- sport,
- preposterousness,
- hokeypokey,
- Greeks,
- rantings,
- commonplace term,
- Buffooneries,
- thickheadedness,
- Festivities,
- Comicality,
- re-creation,
- trifling,
- good time,
- idiocies,
- idioms,
- unintelligibility,
- bullshit,
- obtuseness,
- roughhouse,
- lexicon,
- feeble-mindedness,
- jives,
- stale language,
- teasing,
- living it up,
- foolery,
- fun,
- Frolicking,
- weak-mindedness,
- Choctaws,
- minutia,
- thick-headedness,
- junketings,
- brainlessness,
- triviality,
- falderal,
- Asininity,
- wittiness,
- carryings-on,
- overused term,
- fustians,
- flummery,
- humorousness,
- blabber,
- small potatoes,
- hackneyed term,
- foolish talk,
- shoptalk,
- funny business,
- shallowness,
- ramblings.
- in-sensibilities,
- feeble-mindednesses,
- feeble mindedness,
- feeble mindednesses,
- obtusenesses,
- injudiciousnesses,
- stupidnesses,
- in-capacities,
- in judiciousnesses,
- thick headednesses,
- in capacity,
- in-capacity,
- doltishnesses,
- weak-mindednesses,
- feeblemindednesses,
- in capacities,
- in-sensibility,
- asininities,
- thick headedness,
- in sensibilities,
- nitwittednesses,
- battinesses,
- in judiciousness,
- witlessnesses,
- thick-headednesses,
- brainlessnesses,
- weak mindedness,
- weak mindednesses,
- weakmindedness,
- weakmindednesses,
- nonsensicalities,
- in-judiciousnesses,
- in-judiciousness,
- fatuousnesses,
- thickheadednesses,
- in sensibility.
v.
• Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
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- tommyrot,
- trivia,
- Two-edged,
- abstruse,
- flimflam,
- cryptic,
- spiel,
- piffle,
- bilge,
- bollocks,
- vague,
- fiddle-faddle,
- wooly,
- definition,
- hooey,
- straw man,
- double-edged,
- null,
- mumbo jumbo,
- non sequitur,
- ambiguous,
- twaddle,
- gobbledegook,
- equivocal,
- ravings.
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- oracular,
- swill,
- vaguely,
- tomfoolery,
- moonshine,
- small change.
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- imbecility,
- froth,
- frippery,
- lunacy.
- ramble,
- flannel,
- pooh-pooh,
- horseshit,
- smallness,
- fantasticalness,
- codswallop,
- ritual,
- foolhardiness,
- bunkum,
- slaver,
- sophistry,
- really,
- illogicality,
- blab,
- waggishness,
- fiction,
- tell on,
- flight of fancy,
- apple sauce,
- crapola,
- romance,
- embroidery,
- converse,
- cock,
- hubbub,
- strain,
- Pshaw,
- maunder,
- business,
- horsefeathers,
- equivocation,
- Tut,
- hocus-pocus,
- procedure,
- Twattle,
- lie,
- bother,
- pointlessness,
- fiddle-de-dee,
- tricks,
- fiddlesticks,
- roam,
- dribble,
- bunk bull,
- dopiness,
- vaporing,
- earthenware jar,
- truly,
- frill,
- fairy tale,
- outrageousness,
- never mind,
- without equivocation,
- talk nonsense,
- expatiate,
- goods,
- gook,
- special pleading,
- chatter,
- ridiculous,
- speciousness,
- ludicrous,
- furniture,
- troth,
- taradiddle,
- rigamarole,
- tosh,
- stretch,
- laughable,
- bilge water,
- chicane,
- empty talk,
- Beans,
- silly,
- ballocks,
- rattle on,
- to-do,
- Paralogy,
- tommy-rot,
- Outtalk,
- fabrication,
- casuistry,
- bored,
- con,
- daftness,
- Monstrousness,
- stand firm,
- dumbness,
- play the fool,
- gallivant,
- Gongorism,
- rove,
- furbelow,
- prevarication,
- absurd,
- Capering,
- hyperbole,
- buncombe,
- fish story,
- unmeaning,
- Stultiloquence,
- mirthful,
- razzmatazz,
- tush,
- truck,
- boasting,
- murmur,
- gooseberry,
- swerve,
- performance,
- idiotic,
- ceremony,
- prattling,
- bilgewater,
- pointless,
- berth,
- steel oneself,
- tall tale,
- blether,
- Bavardage,
- risibility,
- line,
- formalities,
- wildness,
- err,
- nil,
- perversion,
- rhubarb,
- Blatter,
- pranks,
- fool around,
- trivial,
- blah,
- stolidity,
- bona fide,
- ceremoniousness,
- muck about,
- pour forth,
- no such thing,
- crock,
- word sense,
- stability,
- illogicalness,
- evasion,
- gammon,
- Puffery,
- grass,
- no one,
- mere words,
- exaggeration,
- vagueness,
- Gurry,
- bumble,
- boloney,
- weasel words,
- blither,
- gibber,
- betray,
- complication,
- give away,
- in sooth,
- nuisance,
- falderol,
- nuts,
- dote,
- Alogy,
- guff,
- kookiness,
- nothing,
- wander,
- cobblers,
- drip,
- applesauce,
- bluster,
- nonsensicalness,
- hoodoo,
- nonentity,
- expansion,
- deviate,
- Humbuggery,
- mess,
- ruffle,
- meshugaas,
- snitch,
- mishegaas,
- nobody,
- Pooh,
- unreasonable,
- coloring,
- bureaucracy,
- baragouin,
- Babblement,
- man of straw,
- havers,
- yarn,
- flattery,
- Pugh,
- gossip,
- in good earnest,
- truism,
- rodomontade,
- jokes,
- prose,
- waffle,
- set one's teeth,
- fiddlestick,
- verbiage,
- amphigory,
- cockeyed,
- Nugacity,
- fudge,
- nullity,
- essence,
- flapdoodle,
- of a truth,
- Pish,
- Fiddledeedee,
- frivolous,
- blether orblather,
- hassle,
- nerts,
- impracticality,
- braggadocio,
- chit-chat,
- unfeignedly,
- Motions,
- platitude,
- inept,
- useless,
- Bibble-babble,
- devote oneself to,
- burble,
- rat,
- bushwa,
- balls,
- senseless,
- punctilio,
- peach,
- punk,
- slush,
- kibosh,
- wish-wash,
- foolish,
- jesuitry,
- Gibble-gabble,
- quiddity,
- clack,
- bosh,
- illogic,
- ruff,
- futility,
- repeat,
- bootlessness,
- tittle-tattle,
- drool,
- imagination,
- digress,
- fantasy,
- skimble-skamble,
- tall story,
- slobber,
- shit,
- fringe,
- eyewash,
- irrational,
- waffling,
- nonmeaningful,
- affirmation,
- incoherency,
- wind,
- stolidness,
- anonymous,
- concoction,
- bs,
- zero,
- jaw,
- flounce,
- fiddle,
- muck,
- stultify oneself,
- cackle,
- Hanky Panky,
- carry on,
- caricature,
- extravagant,
- ridiculousness,
- stag,
- monkeyshines,
- in truth,
- nameless,
- preposterous,
- shop,
- depart,
- rattle,
- jiggery-pokery,
- gimcrack,
- fickleness,
- denounce,
- naught,
- unreasonableness,
- monkey around,
- Stultiloquy,
- folderal,
- no matter,
- fib,
- farcical,
- simple mindedness,
- Galimatias,
- insensate.
How to use "Nonsense" in context?
Nonsense often refers to nonsense terms and expressions, but it can also refer to nonsensical objects, events, or behaviors. Nonsense often elicits laughter, but can also be puzzling or strange. Many nonsensical terms and expressions originated as jokes or as euphemisms, but they have continued to be used in everyday speech.
Paraphrases for Nonsense:
Paraphrases are highlighted according to their relevancy:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
ludicrous, meaningless, nonsensical, preposterous, senseless.
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Noun, singular or mass
absurdity, claptrap, foolishness, senseless.
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Interjection
preposterous.
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Adjective
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Forward Entailment
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Noun, singular or mass
sense.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Reverse Entailment
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Interjection
balderdash.
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Interjection
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Independent
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Adjective
absurd, disparate, fallacious, farcical, foolish, idiotic, incongruous, insane, irrational, mindless, outrageous, perverse, pointless, rubbish, silly, unreasonable.
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Noun, plural
rubbish.
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Noun, singular or mass
aberration, contradiction, folly, idiocy, ineptitude, insanity, madness, mischief, misinterpretation, rubbish.
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Interjection
bollocks, codswallop, insane, nuts, fiddlesticks, balls, -bullshit.
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Verb, past tense
lied.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
grotesque, ridiculous.
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Noun, singular or mass
ridiculous, stupidity.
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Interjection
absurd, outrageous, ridiculous, rubbish.
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Adjective
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