nonsense

non·sense  (nnsns, -sns)

n.

1. Words or signs having no intelligible meaning: a message that was nonsense until decoded.

2. Subject matter, behavior, or language that is foolish or absurd.

3. Extravagant foolishness or frivolity: a clown's exuberant nonsense.

4. Matter of little or no importance or usefulness: a chatty letter full of gossip and nonsense.

5. Insolent talk or behavior; impudence: wouldn't take any nonsense from the children.

adj.

Genetics Of or relating to a mutation in a structural gene that changes a nucleotide triplet into a stop codon, thus prematurely terminating the polypeptide chain during protein synthesis.

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nonsense

Noun

1. something that has or makes no sense

2. unintelligible language

3. foolish behaviour: she'll stand no nonsense

nonsensical adj

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nonsense  (nnsns)

Relating to a mutation in a structural gene that changes a nucleotide triplet into a stop codon, thus prematurely terminating the polypeptide chain during protein synthesis. See more at point mutation.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	nonsense - a message that seems to convey no meaning hokum, meaninglessness, nonsensicality, bunk subject matter, content, message, substance - what a communication that is about something is about absurdity, absurdness, ridiculousness - a message whose content is at variance with reason amphigory, nonsense verse - nonsensical writing (usually verse) balderdash, fiddle-faddle, piffle - trivial nonsense buzzword, cant - stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition cobblers - nonsense; "I think that is a load of cobblers" crock - nonsense; foolish talk; "that's a crock" fa la, fal la - meaningless syllables in the refrain of a partsong gibber, gibberish - unintelligible talking unintelligibility, incoherence, incoherency - nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible jabberwocky - nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll) mummery, flummery - meaningless ceremonies and flattery empty talk, empty words, hot air, palaver, rhetoric - loud and confused and empty talk; "mere rhetoric" rigamarole, rigmarole - a set of confused and meaningless statements schmegegge, shmegegge - (Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense hooey, poppycock, stuff and nonsense, stuff - senseless talk; "don't give me that stuff" baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle, taradiddle, tarradiddle - pretentious or silly talk or writing
	2.	nonsense - ornamental objects of no great value falderol, folderal, gimcrack, gimcrackery, trumpery, frill decoration, ornament, ornamentation - something used to beautify
Adj.	1.	nonsense - having no intelligible meaning; "nonsense syllables"; "a nonsensical jumble of words" nonsensical meaningless, nonmeaningful - having no meaning or direction or purpose; "a meaningless endeavor"; "a meaningless life"; "a verbose but meaningless explanation"

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nonsense

noun 1. rubbish, hot air (informal) waffle (informal), chiefly Brit. twaddle, pants (slang) rot, crap (slang) garbage (informal) trash, bunk (informal) tosh (slang), chiefly Brit. rhubarb, pap, foolishness, bilge (informal) drivel, tripe (informal) gibberish, guff (slang) bombast, moonshine, claptrap (informal) hogwash, hokum (slang), chiefly U.S., Canad. blather, double Dutch Brit. (informal) piffle (informal) poppycock (informal) balderdash, bosh (informal) eyewash (informal) stuff and nonsense, tommyrot, horsefeathers U.S. (slang) bunkum or buncombe chiefly U.S. bizzo Austral. (slang) bull's wool Austral., N.Z. (slang) << OPPOSITE sense

2. idiocy, folly, stupidity, absurdity, silliness, inanity, senselessness, ridiculousness, ludicrousness, fatuity

Translations

nonsense [ˈnɔnsəns] n → tonterías fpl; disparates fpl;

nonsense! → ¡qué tonterías!;

it is nonsense to say that ... → es absurdo decir que ...

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nonsense [ˈnɔnsəns] n → absurdités fpl, idioties fpl;

nonsense! → ne dites pas d'idioties!;

it is nonsense to say that ... → il est absurde de dire que ....

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nonsense [ˈnɔnsəns] n → Unsinn m;

nonsense! → Unsinn!, Quatsch!;

it is nonsense to say that ... → es ist dummes Gerede zu sagen, dass ...;

to make (a) nonsense of sth → etw ad absurdum führen

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nonsense [ˈnɔnsəns] n → sciocchezze fpl;

nonsense! → che sciocchezze!, che assurdità!;

it is nonsense to say that ... → è un'assurdità or non ha senso dire che ...