Find your perfect word!

Definition nonsense

Etymology

From non- (“no, none, lack of”) +‎ sense, from c. 1610.

Noun

nonsense (usually uncountable, plural nonsenses)

1. Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning.
2. An untrue statement.
3. That which is silly, illogical and lacks any meaning, reason or value; that which does not make sense.
4. Something foolish.
5. (literature) A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by Edward Lear.
6. (biology) A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.

Verb

nonsense (third-person singular simple present nonsenses, present participle nonsensing, simple past and past participle nonsensed)

1. To make nonsense of;
2. To attempt to dismiss as nonsense; to ignore or belittle the significance of something; to render unimportant or puny.
3. (intransitive) To joke around, to waste time

Adjective

nonsense (comparative more nonsense, superlative most nonsense)

1. (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).
2. nonsensical

Interjection

nonsense

1. An emphatic rejection of something one has just heard and does not believe or agree with.

Results 134 Words with the letters NONSENSE

You can also try words with the phrase NONSENSE, words starting with the letters NONSENSE, or words ending in the letters NONSENSE.

Favorites Searches

Words… ending with q, starting with q, starting with qa, starting with qo, with two letters, starting with x, starting with j, ending with j,

Some random searches: Words with the letters RJE, Words with the letters WSPI, Words with the letters KU, Words with the letters TPU,