Synonyms for nonsense

Grammar : Noun

Spell : non-sens, -suhns

Phonetic Transcription : ˈnɒn sɛns, -səns

Top 10 synonyms for nonsense

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Définition of nonsense

Origin : 1610s, from non- + sense; perhaps influenced by French nonsens.

noun craziness, ridiculousness

Example sentences :

Nonsense must have the dew on it, or it is good for nothing.
Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

"Nonsense," he laughed, with the air of a man certain of his facts.
Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke

It's all nonsense, and I'm going to see that you're both stopped.
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

I am talking very like nonsense, majie, but I can't do it better.
Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald

That it was only a Yankee ship, any how, and that it is all "blarsted" nonsense to make a fuss about it.
Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 7, May 14, 1870 » by Various

Mr Verloc will be sorry to hear of this nonsense, Stevie,—I can tell you.
Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad

Mrs Verloc rose, and went into the kitchen to “stop that nonsense.”
Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad

There was a plausibility in all he said; but, if it were examined, there was nothing in it but nonsense.
Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 5 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth

Mistress Cross might have persuaded him out of this nonsense, but did not see fit to do so.
Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic

Sense or nonsense, just as you please, so as it shows us what an acrostic is.
Extract from : « Tip Lewis and His Lamp » by Pansy

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