nonsense
Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning.
Noun 4 meanings
Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning.
“After my father had a stroke, every time he tried to talk, it sounded like nonsense.”
An untrue statement.
That which is silly, illogical and lacks any meaning, reason or value; that which does not make sense.
Something foolish.
Verb 3 meanings
To make nonsense of;
To attempt to dismiss as nonsense; to ignore or belittle the significance of something; to render unimportant or puny.
To joke around, to waste time
Adjective 2 meanings
Nonsensical.
Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon (not coding for an amino-acid).
Interjection 1 meaning
An emphatic rejection of something one has just heard and does not believe or agree with.
Etymology
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”).
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NONSENSE at a glance
NONSENSE has 8 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (N 1 + O 1 + N 1 + S 1 + E 1 + N 1 + S 1 + E 1) and 11 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #4,977 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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