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UK
/nˈɒnsəns/
]
[ US /ˈnɑnsɛns/ ]
[ US /ˈnɑnsɛns/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
having no intelligible meaning
a nonsensical jumble of words
nonsense syllables
NOUN
- ornamental objects of no great value
- a message that seems to convey no meaning
How To Use nonsense In A Sentence
- It's all a lot of fuss and nonsense got up by some pesky civil rights activists, some of whom you can find here at Stand.
- A good deal of nonsense about the obsolescence of art is written by the less responsible fuglemen of science.
- Yet he's also studied jazz and Indian music and learnt to play the sarod, so his band achieves a curious rapprochement between world-jazz and heads-down, no-nonsense boogie.
- The captain continues the bitter commentary for a moment before calming himself down, saying he knows that Jenko wouldn't have wanted them to get angry about his death, and himself would have "rapped" to them about balance in the cosmos "and some nonsense about karma. Tomato Nation
- The suggestion is sheer nonsense.
- Our own Hemingway wrote so much grandiose nonsense about this so-called sport that the reader feels a certain dread as the climactic spectacle approaches — a dread heightened by the awareness that Montherlant was a matador in his teenage years. Monster of Marriage
- With a penetrable fourth wall, a spot of audience participation and plenty of gleeful nonsense, this is pantomime in all but dame.
- I believe this is in retaliation for all the nescient liturgical nonsense that I've been trying to ingest the past few days. Chewing on clouds
- How can he be allowed to get away with such blatant, unhistorical nonsense?
- Richard Kraft: Something With Birds In It | A site-specific installation composed of four elements, Something With Birds In It invokes the friction and fluidity between familiar polarities--between the sacred and profane, sense and nonsense, play and violence, reflection and action. Bill Bush: Seeing Red: This Artweek.LA (October 24-30, 2011)