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[ noun ] a message that seems to convey no meaning
Synonyms Used in print (The Providence Journal...)The party at Floyd 's penthouse gave the `` chorines '' a chance for a nostalgic frolic through all those hackneyed routines which have become a classic choreographic statement of the era 's nonsense . (Guy Endore, Voltaire! Voltaire!...)`` Nonsense '' , he said . (James Thurber, "The Future, If Any, of Comedy,"...)And_then Eichmann was quoted as saying , in non English , that Hitler 's plan to exterminate the Jews was nonsense '' . `` That is only partly non nonsense '' , he began . |
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[ adjective ] having no intelligible meaning
Synonyms Examples "nonsense syllables" "a nonsensical jumble of words" Used in print (James Thurber, "The Future, If Any, of Comedy,"...)`` If we cannot tell evil , horror , and insanity from nonsense , what is the future of humor and comedy '' ? Related terms |
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[ noun ] ornamental objects of no great value
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