Thesaurus:nonsense
English
editNoun
editSense: meaningless letter or words; or a false statement
editSynonyms
edit- absurdity
- all my eye
- all my eye and Betty Martin
- applesauce (US, dated, slang)
- bafflegab
- balderdash
- balls (UK, vulgar)
- baloney (US, Australia)
- banana oil (dated)
- Bandini
- baragouin
- batcrap
- batshit
- bilgewater
- blah
- blather
- blatherskite
- bobbins (UK)
- bollocks (UK, vulgar)
- bosh
- BS
- bull
- bullcrap (vulgar)
- bulldust
- bullshit [⇒ thesaurus] (vulgar)
- bullspeak
- bunk
- bunkum
- bushwah
- clamjamfrey (Scots)
- claptrap
- cobblers (UK)
- codswallop
- crap (vulgar)
- crock (vulgar)
- crock of shit (vulgar)
- double Dutch
- double talk
- doublespeak
- drivel
- eyewash
- fiddle-faddle
- flapdoodle
- flim-flam
- flizz (MLE)
- flummery
- folderol
- foolishness
- footle
- framis
- fuckery, fuckry (vulgar, MLE and Jamaica)
- fudge (dated)
- galimatias
- garbage (US)
- garble
- gibber
- gibberish
- gobbledygook
- gossip [⇒ thesaurus]
- Greek [⇒ thesaurus]
- guff
- gup (India)
- hoax
- hocus-pocus
- hogwash
- hokum
- hooey (US)
- horsefeathers
- horse hockey (Canadian)
- horse piss (US, vulgar)
- horse puckey
- horseshit (US, vulgar)
- humbug
- Irish bull
- jabber
- jargon [⇒ thesaurus]
- jibber-jabber
- jimjam
- jive
- junk [⇒ thesaurus]
- lallation
- macaroni (Australian)
- malarkey (Ireland, US, UK)
- manure
- meaninglessness
- moonshine
- mumbo jumbo
- nertz (US)
- nonsense
- pie in the sky
- piffle
- pigswill
- poppycock
- prattle [⇒ thesaurus]
- put-on
- rhubarb (chiefly UK)
- rhubarb rhubarb (chiefly UK)
- rigmarole
- rot
- rubbish (UK)
- ruse
- santorum
- shit (vulgar)
- shite (UK, vulgar)
- skimble-skamble
- squit (UK, dialect)
- stuff (obsolete)
- stuff and nonsense
- tommy-rot (UK)
- tosh (UK)
- tush (UK)
- trash [⇒ thesaurus] (US)
- tripe (UK)
- twaddle
- wass (potentially vulgar, MLE)
- whiff-whaff (obsolete, UK)
- word salad
Usage
editSometimes preceded by "What a load of", "What a pile of", "What a bunch of", and "What a heap of".
Antonyms
edit- nonnonsense
- plain English
- sense [⇒ thesaurus]
Hypernyms
editHyponyms
editVarious
edit- code
- fustian [⇒ thesaurus]
- jargon [⇒ thesaurus]
- malaprop
- malapropism
- patter
- —
- absurd [⇒ thesaurus]
- bullshit [⇒ thesaurus]
- chatter [⇒ thesaurus]
- foolish [⇒ thesaurus]
- false [⇒ thesaurus]
Adjectives modifying nonsense
See also
edit- Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 497. Absurdity
- Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 517. Unmeaningness