Synonyms 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

   Synonyms:
   absurdity, contradiction, demonstration, paradox, sophism

   Antonyms:
   axiom, truism

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1. nonsense

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

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

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1. nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokumnoun

   a message that seems to convey no meaning

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

   Antonyms:
   meaningful

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

   ornamental objects of no great value

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

   Antonyms:
   meaningful

3. nonsense(a), nonsensicaladjective

   having no intelligible meaning

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

   Antonyms:
   meaningful

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1. nonsensenoun

   Synonyms:
   folly, absurdity, stuff, trash, moonshine, twaddle, balderdash, fudge, inanity, platitude

2. nonsensenoun

   Synonyms:
   trifles, things of no consequence or importance

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1. nonsensenoun

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "nonsense":

   absurd, absurdity, rubbish, nonsensical, disparate, stupidity, balderdash, codswallop, ridiculous, poppycock, foolishness, preposterous, folly, bullshit, senseless, fiddlesticks, foolish, claptrap, insane

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How to use nonsense in a sentence?

1. Jerry Nadler:

   If he is permitted to defy the Congress, categorically, to say that subpoenas from Congress in an impeachment inquiry are nonsense, then we will have lost -- the House will have lost, the Senate certainly will have lost -- all power to hold any president accountable, this is a determination by President Trump that President Trump wants to be all powerful. President Trump does not have to respect the Congress. President Trump does not have to respect the representatives of the people. Only President Trump will goes. He is a dictator. This must not stand.

2. Bertrand Russell:

   Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm.

3. Katharine Hepburn:

   All kinds of nonsense, i didn't want to do it, and I walked out. Mayer said,' That girl is a Frankenstein, she's going to ruin our whole firm.' He said,' We made you and we are going to destroy you.'.

4. 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.

5. John Kennedy:

   I’ll vote to shut government down if they want to throw in a bunch of nonsense in the bill.