Nonsense

  • 21nonsense — [[t]nɒ̱nsəns[/t]] 1) N UNCOUNT (disapproval) If you say that something spoken or written is nonsense, you mean that you consider it to be untrue or silly. Most orthodox doctors however dismiss this as complete nonsense. ...all that poetic… …

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  • 22nonsense — 1. noun 1) that s a lot of damn nonsense Syn: rubbish, gibberish, claptrap, balderdash, blarney; informal hogwash, baloney, rot, moonshine, garbage, jive, tripe, drivel, bilge, bull, guff, bunk, bosh …

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  • 23nonsense*/ — [ˈnɒns(ə)ns] noun [U] 1) ideas, behaviour, or statements that are not true or sensible So you believe the nonsense about ghosts?[/ex] That s a load of nonsense.[/ex] These accusations are absolute nonsense.[/ex] 2) unreasonable or annoying… …

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  • 24nonsense — I. noun Date: 1614 1. a. words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas b. (1) language, conduct, or an idea that is absurd or contrary to good sense (2) an instance of absurd action 2. a. things of no importance or value… …

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  • 25Nonsense — Als Nonsens (von engl. Nonsense, dt. Unsinn) oder Nonsense Literatur wird eine literarische Gattung bezeichnet, die sich im Gegensatz zum Alltagsbegriff des „Unsinns“ durch eine regelhaft betriebene Sinnverweigerung auszeichnet.… …

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  • 26nonsense — 1. noun a) Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or seem to have no meaning. After my father had a stroke, every time he tried to talk, it sounded like nonsense. b) An untrue statement. He says that I stole his computer,… …

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  • 27nonsense — nonsensical /non sen si keuhl/, adj. nonsensically, adv. nonsensicalness, nonsensicality, n. /non sens, seuhns/, n. 1. words or language having little or no sense or meaning. 2. conduct, action, etc., that is senseless, foolish, or absurd: to… …

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  • 28nonsense — As used in genetics, relating to a mutation that causes a sequence such that the growing peptide chain terminates, often after several incorrect amino acid residues are incorporated. n. suppression mutant tRNAs that read a chain termination cod …

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  • 29nonsense — noun 1) he was talking nonsense Syn: rubbish, gibberish, claptrap, garbage; informal baloney, tripe, drivel, gobbledegook, twaddle; Brit.; informal cobblers, codswallop, double Dutch; Scottish & N.English; informal havers; …

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  • 30nonsense — Synonyms and related words: Greek, absurdity, absurdness, amphigory, antics, applesauce, babble, babblement, balderdash, baloney, bibble babble, bilge, blabber, blah, blather, blatherskite, blether, bombast, bosh, buffoonery, bull, bullshit, bunk …

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