nonsense
IPA: nˈɑnsɛns
noun
- 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.
verb
- 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
adjective
- Nonsensical.
- (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).
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Examples of "nonsense" in Sentences
- He blabbered nonsense.
- The speech was infantile nonsense.
- Nonsense is often the name of the game.
- Otherwise, why underwrite the nonsense
- To be frank, the attribution is nonsense.
- Clearly, this is arrant and immature nonsense.
- Furthermore the assertion is vacuous nonsense.
- It is a gargantuan slice of irrelevant nonsense.
- It helps to emphasise the nonsense of the statistics.
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