1 [U,C] ideas, statements or beliefs that you think are ridiculous or not true
SYNRUBBISH:
Reports that he has resigned are nonsense. * You're talking nonsense! * 'I won't go.' 'Nonsense! You must go!' * It's nonsense to say they don't care. * The idea is an economic nonsense. * Ministers have dismissed the rumours of a bribery scandal as nonsense.
2 [U] silly or unacceptable behaviour:
The new teacher won't stand for any nonsense. * I can't wait for this nonsense to end so that we can all be friends again.
seealsoNO-NONSENSE
3 [U] spoken or written words that have no meaning or make no sense:
a book of children's nonsense poems * Most of the translation he did for me was complete nonsense.
IDIOMS
make (a) nonsense of sth to reduce the value of sth by a lot; to make sth seem ridiculous:
If people can bribe police officers, it makes a complete nonsense of the legal system. * The unemployment figures make nonsense of talk of an economic recovery.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for nonsense is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is nonsense a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, nonsense is tagged as noun.
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