nonsense

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

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

Verb

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

Adj

1. Nonsensical.
2. Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon (not coding for an amino-acid).

Intj

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

Concepten

onzin

nonsens

flauwekul

zever

zotteklap

lulkoek

kletspraat

kletskoek

quatsch

lariekoek

gekheid

larie

zottenklap

zottenpraat

absurditeit

dwaas

bullshit

absurd

onding

ongerijmd

ongerijmdheid

onzinnig

zinledig

zinloos

zinneloos

zot

gekkigheid

prietpraat

pesterij

onzinnigheid

leuterpraat

zotheid

dwaasheid

ongerijmde

gezever

ongerijmdheid

gebazel

blabla

wartaal

gelul

beuzelarij

bagatel

Synoniemen

rubbish

absurdity

foolishness

balderdash

silliness

senselessness

gibberish

blather

lies

meaningless

stupidity

rot

twaddle

absurd

trash

folly

foolish

meaninglessness

bunk

idiocy

poppycock

nonsensical

silly

applesauce

bosh

falsehood

bullshit

unreasonable

hooey

unreasonableness

trifles

idle talk

trumpery

foolish talk

rave

piffle

ridiculous

speak nonsense

codswallop

blathering

cobblers

claptrap

lie

manner

insignificance

fatuity

abracadabra

joke

🤣

moonshine

hot air

Vertalingen

Unsinn

non-sens

Quatsch

bêtise

disparate

Blödsinn

saçmalık

absurdité

boş laf

absurdo

assurdità

divaguer

sottise

nonsenso

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ˈnɒn.səns/

Etymologie (Engels)

Verwant aan Fries: ûnsin

Verwant aan Nederlands: onzin

Verwant aan Duits: Unsinn

Verwant aan Engels: unsense

In summary

From non- (“no, none, lack of”) + sense, from c. 1610. Compare the semantically similar West Frisian ûnsin (“nonsense”), Dutch onzin (“nonsense”), German Unsinn (“nonsense”), English unsense (“nonsense”).