nonsense

Etymology
From, from c. 1610. Compare the semantically similar 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning.
 * 2) An untrue statement.
 * 3) That which is silly, illogical and lacks any meaning, reason or value; that which does not make sense.
 * 4) Something foolish.
 * 5)  A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by.
 * 6)  A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.
 * 1)  A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by.
 * 2)  A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.
 * 1)  A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:nonsense

Collocations

 * utter nonsense
 * sheer nonsense
 * complete nonsense
 * absolute nonsense
 * pure nonsense
 * downright nonsense
 * perfect nonsense
 * silly nonsense
 * superstitious nonsense
 * romantic nonsense
 * childish nonsense

Translations

 * Albanian: ádra, dokrra, gjepura, palidhje,
 * Arabic: هُرَاء, لَغْو
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani: çərən-pərən, tartan-partan,
 * Belarusian: но́нсэнс, бяссэ́нсіца, абсу́рд, бязглу́здзіца
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Cornish: flows
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: sensencaĵo, absurdaĵo
 * Estonian: jamps
 * Faroese: tvætl, møsn
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician: lastrada, arnada, falcatrúa, patochada, doudice, norrada
 * Georgian: უაზრო, უაზრობა, სისულელე, ნონსენსი
 * German:, , , , Tüddelkram
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: φλυαρία
 * Hebrew: שטויות,
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: amaidí, áiféis, seafóid, brilléis
 * Italian:, senza senso, priva di significato, , , , , , , , , , ,
 * Japanese:, , 馬鹿げた事
 * Khmer: អំពើភ្លីភ្លើ, សំដីរហាច
 * Korean:, 어리석은 소리, 개소리, ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: قسەی ھیچوپوچ
 * Latin: nūgae, gerrae, muscerdae
 * Macedonian: бесми́слица, глу́пост
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Manchu: ᡶᡳᠶᠣᡴᠣᠨ
 * Maori: kutukutuahi, ngutungutuahi, kohe, kūrapa
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, , tullprat, , vås
 * Persian: بی‌معنی,, , ,
 * Polish:, , , , , ,
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Romanian:, , nonsensuri
 * Russian:, , , , , , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: sgudal, amaideas
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: nezmysel
 * Spanish:, , , , , , , , sinsentido, , , ,
 * Swahili: upuuzi
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: sagimuymoy
 * Tajik: ҳарза
 * Tatar:
 * Thai:, การเพ้อเจ้อ
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: дурни́ця,, , ,
 * Urdu: بکواس
 * Welsh: lol


 * Catalan: despropòsit
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Cornish: flows
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Esperanto: sensencaĵo
 * Faroese: tvætl
 * Finnish:, , ,  , pajunköysi ,  , , ,  ,  ,  ,
 * French: (s), ,
 * Galician: lerdez, secatura, babosada, gofeiza,
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:, , , ,
 * Italian:, , , ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kabuverdianu: asnera
 * Macedonian: глу́пост
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: rūpahu
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:, nerozii,
 * Russian:, , , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: sgudal, amaideas
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman:, ,
 * Spanish:, trola, , ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tatar:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Welsh: lol


 * German:


 * Czech:
 * Finnish:, nonsense-runous
 * Hungarian:
 * Korean:
 * Portuguese:


 * Finnish: nonsense-jakso
 * French:
 * Portuguese: sem sentido

Verb

 * 1) To make nonsense of;
 * 2) To attempt to dismiss as nonsense; to ignore or belittle the significance of something; to render unimportant or puny.
 * 3)  To joke around, to waste time
 * 1)  To joke around, to waste time
 * 1)  To joke around, to waste time
 * 1)  To joke around, to waste time
 * 1)  To joke around, to waste time
 * 1)  To joke around, to waste time

Adjective

 * 1) Nonsensical.
 * 2)  Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon (not coding for an amino-acid).

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * French:
 * Italian: senza senso
 * Portuguese: sem sentido
 * Spanish: sin sentido

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, , , , , hiszi a piszi!
 * Latin: nugae!, gerrae!

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) nonsense type of poetry

Etymology
From.

Alternative forms

 * nonsens