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nonsense
English
Alternative forms
- nonsence (archaic)
- non-sense
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”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?n?ns?ns/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n?ns?ns/
- Hyphenation: non?sense
- Rhymes: -?ns?ns, -?ns?ns
Noun
nonsense (usually uncountable, plural nonsenses)
- Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning.
- An untrue statement.
- That which is silly, illogical and lacks any meaning, reason or value; that which does not make sense.
- Something foolish.
- (literature) A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by Edward Lear.
- (biology) A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:nonsense
- Synonyms: falsehood, lie, untruth, absurdity, rubbish, tosh
- Synonyms: absurdity, silliness, contradiction, stupidity, unreasoning
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
nonsense (third-person singular simple present nonsenses, present participle nonsensing, simple past and past participle nonsensed)
- To make nonsense of;
- To attempt to dismiss as nonsense; to ignore or belittle the significance of something; to render unimportant or puny.
- Synonyms: belittle, dismiss, pooh-pooh, rubbish
- (intransitive) To joke around, to waste time
Adjective
nonsense (comparative more nonsense, superlative most nonsense)
- Nonsensical.
- (biochemistry) 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
Interjection
nonsense
- An emphatic rejection of something one has just heard and does not believe or agree with.
Translations
See also
- missense
- non-sense
Finnish
Noun
nonsense
- nonsense (type of poetry)
Declension
Mauritian Creole
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /n?ns?ns/
Etymology
From English nonsense.
Noun
nonsense
- nonsense
Alternative forms
- nonsens
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inanity
English
Etymology
From French inanité, from Latin inanitas
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?-n?n?-?t-?, IPA(key): /??næn?ti/
- Hyphenation: i?nan?i?ty
Noun
inanity (countable and uncountable, plural inanities)
- (uncountable) The property of being inane, of lacking material of interest or satisfaction, emptiness.
- Something that is inane.
- Working in any bureaucracy means being bedeviled by inanities daily.
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