Synonyms of piffle

piffle 1 of 2

noun

as in nonsense

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

the belief that soda is made out of acid is just piffle

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

piffle

2 of 2

verb

as in to muddle

Related Words

• muddle
• fluff
• blunder
• boggle
• gum (up)
• bungle
• butcher
• mangle
• muff
• boot
• blight
• botch
• flaw
• screw up
• murder
• bumble
• dub
• harm
• foozle
• damage
• muck up
• goof (up)
• ruin
• foul up
• impair
• blow
• vitiate
• bollix (up)
• spoil
• mutilate
• bobble
• fumble
• flub
• injure
• wreck
• bugger (up)
• louse up
• mar
• mess (up)
• blemish
• hurt
• destroy
• mismanage
• mishandle

Dissimilar Words

• better
• reform
• remedy
• improve
• help
• ameliorate
• refine
• enhance
• rectify
• meliorate
• patch
• repair
• fix
• revamp
• doctor
• renovate
• recondition

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of piffle

Noun

That may not sound like a virtue, but in a world where horror comes either overloaded with metaphor or reduced to bloody piffle, Cregger valiantly navigates an unnerving middle way. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2025

The irony of the lightweight piffle being resurrected 26 years later isn’t lost on the group. — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023

The whole story now seems like so much piffle, except for the sons who lost their mother and a princess who lost her life. — John Anderson, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2021

People who are too cowardly to put their names behind their allegations are hiding in the shadows, using the anonymity of dark money laws to try to raise doubts in the minds of voters by spreading inflammatory charges that amount to piffle. — cleveland, 12 Sep. 2021

The fact that all those involved in discussing this question have heads full of tosh and piffle does not make for productive debates. — Salman Rushdie, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2020

Verb

And what The New Yorker saw happening most of all was Charlie Chaplin, who figures prominently in the magazine’s first year, in contexts ranging from pithy to piffling. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025

The Ritz, a smart London hotel where Margaret Thatcher spent her last days, is in fine fettle, turning a neat annual profit and valued in the region of £800m—not bad for a property bought for a piffling £75m in 1995. — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2019