Usually means: Meaningless or illogical words, ideas.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word nonsense:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. nonsense: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. nonsense: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nonsense: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nonsense: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nonsense: Vocabulary.com
  6. Nonsense, nonsense: Wordnik
  7. nonsense: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. nonsense: Wiktionary
  9. nonsense: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. nonsense: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. nonsense: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. nonsense: Dictionary.com
  13. nonsense: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Nonsense (disambiguation), Nonsense (film), Nonsense: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Nonsense: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. nonsense: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. nonsense: Rhymezone
  18. Nonsense: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. nonsense: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. nonsense: Free Dictionary
  21. nonsense: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. nonsense: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. nonsense: Online Etymology Dictionary

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. nonsense: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nonsense: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nonsense: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nonsense: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See nonsenses as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning.
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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