Crossword clues for nonsense
nonsense
- Cobblers start to nail, working by feel
- European refusal to feel rubbish
- Fool's speech in production of Lear
- Rubbish, rot
- Reiterated three points about recycling rubbish
- Refusal in Paris hearing? Balderdash!
- Aroma around poles inside of tent is rubbish
- Absurdity of Nationalist version of "oneness"
- Meaningless talk
- "Don't be ridiculous!"
- Word of dismissal
- Like some lyrics
- Meaningless words
- Edward Lear's forte
- Bunk (my favorite cryptogram of this word, by the way, is BEBOPBOP)
- "You must be kidding!"
- There may be rhyme but no reason in it
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
fiddledeedee \fid"dle*dee*dee`\, interj. An exclamatory word or phrase, equivalent to nonsense!
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon (not coding for an amino-acid). n. 1 Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or seem to have no meaning. 2 An untrue statement. 3 Something foolish. 4 (context literature English) A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Lear. 5 (context biology English) A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing. v
1 To make nonsense of 2 To attempt to dismiss as nonsense. 3 (context intransitive English) To joke around, to waste time
WordNet
adj. having no intelligible meaning; "nonsense syllables"; "a nonsensical jumble of words" [syn: nonsense(a), nonsensical]
n. a message that seems to convey no meaning [syn: bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum]
ornamental objects of no great value [syn: falderal, folderol, frills, gimcrackery, gimcracks, trumpery]
Wikipedia
Nonsense is a communication, via speech, writing, or any other symbolic system, that lacks any coherent meaning. Sometimes in ordinary usage, nonsense is synonymous with absurdity or the ridiculous. Many poets, novelists and songwriters have used nonsense in their works, often creating entire works using it for reasons ranging from pure comic amusement or satire, to illustrating a point about language or reasoning. In the philosophy of language and philosophy of science, nonsense is distinguished from sense or meaningfulness, and attempts have been made to come up with a coherent and consistent method of distinguishing sense from nonsense. It is also an important field of study in cryptography regarding separating a signal from noise.
Nonsense is an utterance or written text that does not in fact carry any identifiable meaning.
Nonsense may also mean:
- Abstract nonsense, a term used by mathematicians to describe certain kinds of arguments and concepts in category theory
- In genetics, a nonsense mutation is a point mutation in a sequence of DNA that results in a premature stop codon.
- Nonsense verse
- Fashionable Nonsense
- "Nonsense", a song by Madeon, featuring Mark Foster, from the album Adventure
- Nonsense (film), a 2016 film
Usage examples of "nonsense".
The malpractice stuff had been more than enough to seriously disrupt and alter his life, but this criminal nonsense was a quantum leap worse, like throwing salt into a mortal wound.
Latter who was poisoned, which makes nonsense, or else it was someone who was right here in this room and was able to see that there were no mistakes, and that the cup with the morphia in it got to the person it was meant for.
The grimaces and caperings of buffoonery, the gymnastics of the punster and the parodist, the revels of pure nonsense may be, at their best, a refreshment and delight, but they are not comedy, and have proved in effect not a little hostile to the existence of comedy.
I told her to forget this doctor nonsense and talk more reasonably about the oilman and his petrodollars and what he had her do.
Two ridiculous scribblers, that were often pestering the world with nonsense.
Miss Springer said nonsense, that they were just the ones who needed it.
Personally she had little taste for morning rides and water-parties and cricket matches on the Steine, pursuits which she considered so much noise and nonsense.
I must admit I was unsettled by the parody of my name being used in a trashy novel, but the whole thing was nonsense.
Turning to Trink, Marluxion looked at him, Trink shook in his boots, muttering to himself that he was to old to put up with all this nonsense, he was an old respected elf!
Miss Bingley warmly resented the indignity he had received, in an expostulation with her brother for talking such nonsense.
Chert thought, was enough to make a person want to lie down on the ground, close his eyes, and become a blindworm Surely blindworms didnt have to put up with nonsense like this?
He talked an incessant stream of nonsense, bad jokes, lines from Bollywood blockbusters, ancient poetry.
She was very willing, also, to take the nonsense out of the Capsheaf girls, who thought themselves the most stylish personages of their city world, and would bite their lips well to see themselves distanced by a country miss.
Iris romped around Caracas and played with her computer projections or whatever the hell they were and sat in seminars gabbing nonsense and, for all he knew, dallied with the male students of many lands.
I convinced him this was nonsense, but by then Cardon had disappeared.