THESAURUS
nonsense
Greek, absurdity, absurdness, amphigory, antics, applesauce, babble, babblement, balderdash, baloney, bibble-babble, bilge, blabber, blah, blather, blatherskite, blether, bombast, bosh, buffoonery, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, bushwa, cackle, capering, claptrap, cock, crap, double Dutch, double-talk, drip, drivel, drool, eyewash, fantasticalness, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flapdoodle, flimflam, flummery, folderol, foolishness, frivolity, fudge, fustian, gabble, galimatias, gammon, garbage, gas, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gobbledygook, gook, guff, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hokum, hooey, horsefeathers, horseplay, hot air, humbug, inanity, jabber, jabberwocky, jargon, jazz, jesting, jiggery-pokery, jokes, joking, ludicrousness, malarkey, mischief, monkey business, monkeyshines, monstrousness, moonshine, mumbo jumbo, mumbo-jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsensicality, outrageousness, pack of
nonsense, palaver, piffle, poppycock, pranks, prate, prattle, preposterousness, puffery, punk, rant, ridiculousness, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, rot, rubbish, shenanigans, shit, silliness, skimble-skamble, stuff and
nonsense, stultiloquence, tomfoolery, tommyrot, trash, tricks, tripe, trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vaporing, waffle, waffling, waggishness, wildness
ROGET THESAURUS
nonsense
& Sophistry
N
intuition, instinct, association, hunch, gut feeling, presentiment, premonition, rule of thumb, superstition, astrology, faith (supposition), sophistry, paralogy, perversion, casuistry, jesuitry, equivocation, evasion, chicane, chicanery, quiddet, quiddity, mystification, special pleading, speciousness,
nonsense, word sense, tongue sense, false reasoning, vicious reasoning, circular reasoning, petitio principii, ignoratio elenchi, post hoc ergo propter hoc, non sequitur, ignotum per ignotius, misjudgment, false teaching, sophism, solecism, paralogism, quibble, quirk, elenchus, elench, fallacy, quodlibet, subterfuge, subtlety, quillet, inconsistency, antilogy, a delusion, a mockery, and a snare, claptrap, cant, mere words, lame and impotent conclusion, meshes of sophistry, cobwebs of sophistry, flaw in an argument, weak point, bad case, overrefinement, hairsplitting, intuitive, instinctive, impulsive, independent of reason, anterior to reason, gratuitous, hazarded, unconnected, unreasonable, illogical, false, unsound, invalid, unwarranted, not following, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsistent, absonous, absonant, unscientific, untenable, inconclusive, incorrect, fallacious, fallible, groundless, unproved, non sequitur, it does not follow, deceptive, sophistical, jesuitical, illusive, illusory, specious, hollow, plausible, ad captandum, evasive, irrelevant, weak, feeble, poor, flimsy, loose, vague, irrational, nonsensical, foolish, frivolous, pettifogging, quibbling, finespun, overrefined, at the end of one's tether, au bout de son latin, intuitively, by intuition, illogically, non constat, that goes for nothing.
Absurdity
N
absurdity, absurdness, imbecility alogy,
nonsense, utter
nonsense, paradox, inconsistency, stultiloquy, stultiloquence, nugacity, blunder, muddle, bull, Irishism, Hibernicism, slipslop, anticlimax, bathos, sophism, farce, galimathias, amphigouri, rhapsody, farrago, betise, extravagance, romance, sciamachy, sell, pun, verbal quibble, macaronic, jargon, fustian, twaddle, gibberish, exaggeration, moonshine, stuff, mare's nest, quibble, self- delusion, vagary, tomfoolery, poppycock, mummery, monkey trick, boutade, escapade, absurd, nonsensical, preposterous, egregious, senseless, inconsistent, ridiculous, extravagant, quibbling, self-annulling, self- contradictory, macaronic, punning, foolish sophistical, unmeaning, without rhyme or reason, fantastic, Int, fiddlededee!, pish!, pho!, in the name of the Prophet--figs!, credat Judaeus Apella, tell it to the marines.
Unmeaningness
N
meaninglessness, unmeaningness, scrabble, empty sound, dead letter, vox et praeterea nihil, a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing, sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal,
nonsense, utter
nonsense, gibberish, jargon, jabber, mere words, hocus-pocus, fustian, rant, bombast, balderdash, palaver, flummery, verbiage, babble, baverdage, baragouin, platitude, niaiserie, inanity, flap-doodle, rigmarole, rodomontade, truism, nugae canorae, twaddle, twattle, fudge, trash, garbage, humbug, poppy-cock, stuff, stuff and
nonsense, bosh, rubbish, moonshine, wish-wash, fiddle- faddle, absurdity, vagueness, boilerplate, clich_¬, unmeaning, meaningless, senseless, nonsensical, void of sense, inexpressive, unexpressive, vacant, not significant, insignificant, trashy, washy, trumpery, trivial, fiddle-faddle, twaddling, quibbling, unmeant, not expressed, tacit, inexpressible, undefinable, incommunicable.