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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
nonsensical
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
nonsensical ideas
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Charming, idiotic, nonsensical girls, he used to say.
▪ Finally, may I dispel a couple of nonsensical rumours that are currently circulating.
▪ For example, a modulating theme may sound nonsensical without other notes which guide the harmonic flow.
▪ Similarly, the puerile masquerade of seventies non-swearing was worth watching because it was deliciously nonsensical.
▪ The model's results are nonsensical.
▪ The other ninety-five per cent looks like a fairly nonsensical sequence.
▪ Well, perhaps you have a natural claim to these bizarre nonsensical things.
▪ You must cease this nonsensical life of yours, slaving away as if you were a servant!
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nonsensical

Nonsensical \Non*sen"si*cal\, a. Without sense; unmeaning; absurd; foolish; irrational; preposterous. -- Non*sen"si*cal*ly, adv. -- Non*sen"si*cal*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
nonsensical

1650s, from nonsense + -ical. Related: Nonsensically.

Wiktionary
nonsensical

a. Without sense; unmeaning; absurd; foolish; irrational; preposterous.

WordNet
nonsensical
  1. adj. completely devoid of wisdom or good sense; "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous" [syn: absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, preposterous, ridiculous]

  2. having no intelligible meaning; "nonsense syllables"; "a nonsensical jumble of words" [syn: nonsense(a)]

Usage examples of "nonsensical".

Now among the Zu-Vendi it is a common and most harmless thing for young men to serenade ladies at night, as I believe they do in the southern countries of Europe, and sing all sorts of nonsensical songs to them.

She imagined him whispering nonsensical words, words of comfort and joy and love.

The nonsensical idea of importing only medical opium would not keep one merchant prosperous, much less the dozens who now made fortunes from it.

They had given up the nonsensical superwoman image of pretending that they had cooked everything themselves while holding down a job, looking after their children and running a home.

Chairman, it is no counterrevolutionary plot, no nonsensical Trotskyite brigandage.

Dreams were supposed to be fantasies and nonsensical jumbles of nonevents, but he was convinced his flying dream had been a premonition that he would find the spot where Mara had hidden her journal.

She was convinced, of course, that her husband was mad and all his opinions nonsensical.

The pornographical cartridges he finds nonsensical and views them in Fast Forward to get them over with as quickly as possible.

I appealed to Cummings, but he said he was bound to agree with the others and my dream was especially nonsensical.

Well-formulated physical problems elicit nonsensical answers when the equations of both these theories are commingled.

A Nonsensical Strategy 11: The Case for an Invasion The Advantages of an Invasion The Military Requirements Could We Do It with Less?

This is almost a nonsensical point, since the approval of the Goods Review List in May 2002 effectively removed the last remnants of the economic sanctions, leaving only the military sanctions and the financial controls that underpin them.

By ignoring this principle many sentences are made, if not nonsensical, really ridiculous and ludicrous.

Kaycee smiled and cooed nonsensical words, as if trying to tell Caralie all about her day so far.

Most academics totally discount such stories, believing them to be nonsensical boasts on the part of a shabby tribe attempting to further itself by professed descent from an illustrious forebear.