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▸ noun: An untrue statement.
▸ noun: That which is silly, illogical and lacks any meaning, reason or value; that which does not make sense.
▸ noun: Something foolish.
▸ noun: (literature) A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by Edward Lear.
▸ noun: (biology) A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.
▸ verb: To make nonsense of;
▸ verb: To attempt to dismiss as nonsense; to ignore or belittle the significance of something; to render unimportant or puny.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To joke around, to waste time
▸ adjective: Nonsensical.
▸ adjective: (biochemistry) Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon (not coding for an amino-acid).
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folderol,
falderal,
trumpery,
gimcrackery,
meaninglessness,
nonsensicality,
frills,
non-sense,
nonsence,
unsense,
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