nonsense

1. 1.

   having no intelligible meaning

   “nonsense syllables”

   “a nonsensical jumble of words”

   Synonymsnonsensical

   Similarmeaningless

Other forms of nonsense

plural

nonsenses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about nonsense

What does nonsense mean?

nonsense means "a message that seems to convey no meaning". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nonsense?

nonsense has 2 syllables: non-sense. The stress falls on "non". In IPA it is /ˈnɑnsɛns/.

What is another word for nonsense?

Close synonyms include bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum, folderal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nonsense a common word?

nonsense is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.