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
• dumbness
• denseness
• dim-wittedness
• irrationality
• gormlessness
• simplemindedness
• oafishness
• mindlessness
• ridiculousness
• fallacy
• laughableness
• dopiness
• 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

Then, crisis established, comes a bit of surrealist slapstick nonsense. —Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 12 July 2025

Inge will portray Kendra, Bill’s (Joseph Sikora) wife who doesn’t have time for nonsense. —Denise Petski, Deadline, 9 July 2025

While praised by real-life doctors for being one of the more accurate medical shows, Scrubs still made room for plenty of silly, lighthearted nonsense. —James Mercadante, EW.com, 21 July 2025

In that case, this is a lot of nonsense over something that just won’t arise. —Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 19 July 2025