Antonyms for nonsense
ˈnɒn sɛns, -sənsnon·sense

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1. nonsenseverb

   Synonyms:
   pooh-pooh, rubbish

2. nonsenseverb

   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.

   Synonyms:
   pooh-pooh, rubbish

3. nonsenseverb

   To attempt to dismiss as nonsense.

   He says that I stole his computer, but that's just nonsense.

   Synonyms:
   rubbish, pooh-pooh

4. nonsenseverb

   To joke around, to waste time

   Synonyms:
   rubbish, pooh-pooh

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. nonsense

   Antonyms:
   axiom, truism

   Synonyms:
   absurdity, contradiction, demonstration, paradox, sophism

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1. nonsense

   Antonyms:
   sense, wisdom, truth, fact, gravity, philosophy, science, reason

   Synonyms:
   absurdity, trash, folly, pretense, jest, balderdash

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1. nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokumnoun

   a message that seems to convey no meaning

   Antonyms:
   meaningful

   Synonyms:
   folderal, bunkum, hogwash, feed bunk, gimcrack, guff, bunk, frill, trumpery, nonsensicality, buncombe, meaninglessness, built in bed, falderol, hokum, bunk bed, gimcrackery, rot, berth

2. folderal, falderol, frill, gimcrackery, gimcrack, nonsense, trumperyadjective

   ornamental objects of no great value

   Antonyms:
   meaningful

   Synonyms:
   flounce, folderal, gimcrackery, trash, gimcrack, codswallop, bunk, frill, rubbish, wish-wash, trumpery, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, ruff, applesauce, folderol, falderol, hokum, furbelow, ruffle, tripe

3. nonsense(a), nonsensicaladjective

   having no intelligible meaning

   "nonsense syllables"; "a nonsensical jumble of words"

   Antonyms:
   meaningful

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1. nonsensenoun

   Synonyms:
   absurdity, twaddle, bosh, fudge, silliness, balderdash, moonshine, amphigory, rigmarole

How to use nonsense in a sentence?

1. Anthony Scaramucci:

   That’s very was outrageous, an example of Scandal Inc. nonsense and the politics of personal destruction here, don’t like it at all, to be candid.

2. The PYD:

   They don't even accept The PYD as a terrorist organization. What kind of nonsense is this ? the West still has the mentality of' My terrorist is good, President Tayyip Erdogan is bad.'.

3. Jack Gescheidt:

   The claim about trees being flammable is nonsense, all living trees and forests are fire resistant.

4. Robert Frost:

   Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.

5. Van Jones:

   I have a kid, seven years old, he can't even watch TV. I used to say, 'I don't want you watching the Kardashians, I want you watching the news so you can learn something,' watching all this nonsense in your party, he turns around and says, 'Dad you're a liar.' He doesn't even know what the word means. But he sees so much vitriol from your party he brings that into our house.

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