nonsense
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
intj
Morphological type: derivation
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Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Germanic *ne
Proto-Indo-European *ís?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos
Proto-Germanic *ainaz
Proto-Germanic *nainaz
Proto-West Germanic *nain
Old English nān
Middle English non
▲
Old English nān
Old English nān-
Middle English non-
English non-
Proto-Indo-European *sent-der.
Proto-Italic *sentjō
Latin sentiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin sēnsusbor.
Proto-Germanic *sinnaz
Frankish *sinnbor.
Vulgar Latin *sennus
Old French sensbor.
Middle English sense
English sense
English nonsense
From non- (“no, none, lack of”) + sense, from c. 1610. Compare the semantically similar West Frisian ûnsin (“nonsense”), Dutch onzin (“nonsense”), German Unsinn (“nonsense”), English unsense (“nonsense”).
Base: sense
Affixes: non-
Inflected forms:
form: nonsenses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nonsence
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: non-sense
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: nonsenses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: nonsensing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: nonsensed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: nonsensed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: nonsence
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: non-sense
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: more nonsense
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nonsense
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: nonsence
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: non-sense
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: nonsence
pos: intj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: non-sense
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: After my father had a stroke, every time he tried to talk, it sounded like nonsense.
gloss: An untrue statement.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: You have seen it for yourselves in the play by Aristophanes, where Socrates goes whirling round, proclaiming that he is walking on air, and uttering a great deal of other nonsense about things of which I know nothing whatsoever.
While at the hospital, David kept screaming and yelling nonsense, stating Vladimir Putin bailed him out of jail and is a god.
gloss: That which is silly, illogical and lacks any meaning, reason or value; that which does not make sense.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Something foolish.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: and central banks lend vast sums against marshmallow backed securities, or other nonsenses creative bankers dreamed up.
gloss: A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by Edward Lear.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: To make nonsense of;
pos: verb
examples: At the Haymarket all this is nonsensed by an endeavor to steer between Mr. Stanley Weyman's rights as author of the story and the prescriptive right of the leading actor to fight popularly and heroically against heavy odds.
gloss: To attempt to dismiss as nonsense; to ignore or belittle the significance of something; to render unimportant or puny.
pos: verb
examples: "They haven't nonsensed these workouts. They've taken them and used them very well. I didn't know how they'd respond, but they've responded."
Very commanding: very much 'end of this nonsensing'. Mister Fared spread his hands and shook his thin head imperceptibly, as if to say he understood.
He further nonsensed press suggestions that the Petroleum Unit was set up to assist in the administration of sporting activities.
gloss: To joke around, to waste time
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: When he meant "go and get one" he said to go and get one, with no nonsensing around about "liking" to get one.
gloss: Nonsensical.
pos: adj
gloss: Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon (not coding for an amino-acid).
pos: adj
gloss: An emphatic rejection of something one has just heard and does not believe or agree with.
pos: intj
examples: The operators present this as a passenger benefit by claiming it provides early notice. Nonsense! This just means that passengers can't find any information about the train they thought they were catching. It simply disappears.
Synonyms: all my eye
all my eye and Betty Martin
applesauce
bafflegab
balderdash
balls
baloney
banana oil
Bandini
baragouin
batcrap
batshit
bilgewater
blah
blather
blatherskite
bobbins
bollocks
bosh
BS
bull
bullcrap
bulldust
bull feathers
bullshit
bullspeak
bunk
bunkum
bushwah
clamjamfrey
claptrap
cobblers
codswallop
crap
crock
crock of shit
double Dutch
double talk
doublespeak
dribble
drivel
eyewash
fiddle-faddle
flapdoodle
flim-flam
flizz
flummery
folderol
foolishness
footle
framis
fuckery
fuckry
fudge
galimatias
Gallophone
garbage
garble
gash
gibber
gibberish
gobbledygook
gossip
Greek
guff
gup
hoax
hocus-pocus
hogwash
hokum
hooey
horse cock
horsefeathers
horse hockey
horse piss
horse puckey
horseshit
humbug
Irish bull
jabber
jabberwocky
jargon
jibber-jabber
jimjam
jive
junk
lallation
macaroni
malarkey
manure
meaninglessness
moonshine
mumbo jumbo
nertz
nonsense
pie in the sky
piffle
pigswill
poppycock
prattle
put-on
rhubarb
rhubarb rhubarb
rigmarole
rot
ruse
santorum
shit
shite
skimble-skamble
squit
stuff
stuff and nonsense
tommy-rot
trittle trattle
tush
trash
tripe
twaddle
wass
whiff-whaff
word salad
Derived words: abstract nonsense
beyonsense
diagnonsense
nonnonsense
non-nonsense
no-nonsense
nonsensely
nonsense-mediated decay
nonsense mutation
nonsense syndrome
nonsense word
nonsensic
nonsensical
nonsensification
nonsensify
nonsensity
QAnonsense
stuff and nonsense
what nonsense
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