Synonyms of nonsense

nonsense 1 of 2

noun (1)

ˌnän-ˌsen(t)s 

1

as in garbage

language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense

told the little brat to stop his mischievous nonsense and start behaving properly

the discussion about building a time machine was complete nonsense

a hundred years ago, the idea that man could walk on the moon was regarded as impractical nonsense

Synonyms & Similar Words

• garbage
• nuts
• silliness
• rubbish
• stupidity
• blah
• drool
• claptrap
• craziness
• foolishness
• hogwash
• twaddle
• bunk
• guff
• muck
• jazz
• baloney
• falderal
• malarky
• balderdash
• blah-blah
• poppycock
• bunkum
• trash
• hokum
• insanity
• piffle
• boloney
• hooey
• malarkey
• madness
• buncombe
• trumpery
• tosh
• beans
• flapdoodle
• absurdity
• rot
• punk
• folderol
• blather
• crock
• blither
• humbuggery
• tommyrot
• bilge
• drivel
• codswallop
• tarradiddle
• bull
• blatherskite
• fiddlesticks
• crapola
• bosh
• fiddle
• fudge
• absurdness
• blarney
• folly
• humbug
• idiocy
• taradiddle
• hokeypokey
• horsefeathers
• fiddle-faddle
• nerts
• senselessness
• hoodoo
• applesauce
• flannel
• moonshine
• inanity
• tomfoolery
• kookiness
• slush
• lunacy
• foolery
• asininity
• imbecility
• inaneness
• rigmarole
• greek
• rigamarole
• witlessness
• fatuity
• gas
• hocus-pocus
• monkey business
• double-talk
• shenanigan(s)
• hot air
• hoity-toity
• monkeyshine(s)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• rationality
• reasonableness
• sense
• common sense
• sensibleness
• horse sense
• reasonability
• judgment
• wisdom
• judgement
• levelheadedness
• discernment

2

as in babble

unintelligible or meaningless talk

when you talk with your mouth full of food, everything just comes out as nonsense

Synonyms & Similar Words

• babble
• prattle
• chatter
• gabble
• gibberish
• jabber
• mumbo jumbo
• gibber
• drivel
• blah
• burble
• double-talk
• twaddle
• jabberwocky
• blah-blah
• abracadabra
• double Dutch
• hocus-pocus
• clatter
• blabber
• slobber
• gab
• twitter
• prate
• tattle
• patter
• clack
• hokeypokey
• cackle

nonsensicalness

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noun (2)

as in insanity

lack of good sense or judgment

the nonsensicalness of your attempt to swim across the icy river is beyond words

Synonyms & Similar Words

• insanity
• madness
• simplicity
• absurdity
• craziness
• foolishness
• unwisdom
• wackiness
• fatuousness
• dottiness
• daftness
• balminess
• silliness
• nuttiness
• zaniness
• dippiness
• preposterousness
• imbecility
• stupidness
• witlessness
• lunacy
• inanity
• stupidity
• folly
• doltishness
• simpleness
• senselessness
• asininity
• brainlessness
• dulness
• idiocy
• slowness
• feeblemindedness
• fatuity
• dullness
• unreasonableness
• obtuseness
• denseness
• dim-wittedness
• irrationality
• gormlessness
• simplemindedness
• oafishness
• mindlessness
• ridiculousness
• fallacy
• laughableness
• dopiness
• dumbness
• weirdness
• kookiness
• ludicrousness
• vacuity

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• wisdom
• soundness
• sanity
• sagacity
• prudence
• validity
• rationality
• reasonableness
• sapience
• sageness
• sensibleness
• perception
• sagaciousness
• logicality
• insight
• reasonability
• logicalness
• discernment
• rationalness
• percipience

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of nonsense

Noun

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images What To Know The new survey from Resume Now shows a substantial number of U.S. employees are faking working, either by having fake meetings or nonsense typing. —Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 June 2025

But water as the power source for a vehicle is nonsense. —Robert Rapier, Forbes.com, 15 June 2025

But the idea of an algorithm, which is as prone to generate nonsense as anything lucid, representing a deceased person’s thoughts or behaviors seems terrifying. —ArsTechnica, 13 June 2025

The right-wing media complex has a disproportionate presence and is populated by extreme personalities who have no problem embracing nonsense AI imagery and flagrantly untrue reporting that fits their agenda. —Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 13 June 2025