Definitions for nonsense

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nonsense non·sense

Spelling: [non-sens, -suh ns]

IPA: /ˈnɒn sɛns, -səns/

Nonsense is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in nonsense (eennnoss).

Definitions for nonsense

noun

1. words or language having little or no sense or meaning.
2. conduct, action, etc., that is senseless, foolish, or absurd:
3. impudent, insubordinate, or otherwise objectionable behavior:
4. something absurd or fatuous:
5. anything of trifling importance or of little or no use.
6. Genetics. a DNA sequence that does not code for an amino acid and is not transcribed (distinguished from sense).

Origin of nonsense

First recorded in 1605-15; non- + sense

Examples for nonsense

"nonsense," he laughed, with the air of a man certain of his facts.

But none of this stops Kennedy from trafficking in slander and nonsense.

nonsense must have the dew on it, or it is good for nothing.

She describes Coles, along with Cosmo Executive Editor Leslie Yazel, as “smart and funny, no nonsense, true to her word.”

He now faced being arrested yet again for what seemed like nonsense.

I am talking very like nonsense, majie, but I can't do it better.

A country that is serious about health reform would not take a limited, valued resource and waste it on nonsense like this.

That it was only a Yankee ship, any how, and that it is all "blarsted" nonsense to make a fuss about it.

For Sanders, all of that speculation is nonsense, Beltway gossip that is distracting people from running to the barricades.

It's all nonsense, and I'm going to see that you're both stopped.