- [uncountable, countable] ideas, statements or beliefs that you think are silly or not true synonym rubbish (3)
- Reports that he has resigned are nonsense.
- You're talking nonsense!
- ‘I won't go.’ ‘Nonsense! You must go!’
- It's nonsense to say they don't care.
- The idea is an economic nonsense.
- Ministers have dismissed the rumours of a bribery scandal as nonsense.
Extra Examples- Most of his theories are arrant nonsense.
- People are talking a lot of nonsense about the singer's private life.
- What's all this nonsense about you giving up your job?
- You don't believe that superstitious nonsense, do you?
- ‘I heard he's resigning.’ ‘That's nonsense.’
- How can you believe such nonsense?
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- absolute
- arrant
- complete
- …
- spout
- talk
- put up with
- …
- nonsense about
- a load of nonsense
- a lot of nonsense
- make a nonsense of something
- …
- [uncountable] spoken or written words that have no meaning or make no sense
- a book of children’s nonsense poems
- Most of the translation he did for me was complete nonsense.
- The whole article seemed like complete nonsense to me.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- absolute
- arrant
- complete
- …
- spout
- talk
- put up with
- …
- nonsense about
- a load of nonsense
- a lot of nonsense
- make a nonsense of something
- …
- [uncountable] silly or unacceptable behaviour
- The new teacher won't stand for any nonsense.
- I can't wait for this nonsense to end so that we can all be friends again.
Extra Examples- I'm not going to stand any more of this nonsense.
- Just stop this nonsense of refusing to talk to anybody.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- absolute
- arrant
- complete
- …
- spout
- talk
- put up with
- …
- nonsense about
- a load of nonsense
- a lot of nonsense
- make a nonsense of something
- …
Idioms
See nonsense in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarymake (a) nonsense of something
- to reduce the value of something by a lot; to make something seem silly
- If people can bribe police officers, it makes a complete nonsense of the legal system.
- The unemployment figures make nonsense of talk of an economic recovery.
- This decision makes absolute nonsense of all our hard work.
stuff and nonsense
- (old-fashioned, informal) used to say that something is stupid or not true
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