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Noun
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Spoken or written words that are absurd or meaningless
drivel
hogwash
twaddle
rubbish
balderdash
claptrap
poppycock
garbage
malarkey
baloney
bunk
blather
bull
rot
piffle
codswallop
bunkum
tosh
guff
trash
hooey
crock
hokum
flapdoodle
bilge
moonshine
humbug
bosh
folly
boloney
tommyrot
fiddlesticks
applesauce
gibberish
horsefeathers
blither
crapola
foolishness
blarney
silliness
senselessness
stupidity
blah
malarky
slush
fudge
hokeypokey
tripe
jazz
muck
nuts
flannel
taradiddle
trumpery
drool
hoodoo
tarradiddle
blatherskite
buncombe
fiddle
blether
beans
eyewash
cobblers
falderal
folderol
nerts
punk
phooey
waffle
wack
balls
dribble
blathers
gobbledegook
havers
bulldust
bushwa
gammon
bombast
more ❯
“All of you have been spouting nonsense for the whole day. When are you going to answer my question?”
Noun
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Incoherent or senseless talk
drivel
babble
gibberish
gabble
prattle
jabber
blabber
slobber
abracadabra
jabberwocky
gibber
burble
double-talk
mumbo jumbo
double Dutch
chatter
blather
twaddle
rambling
jabbering
gab
waffle
yabbering
prating
ranting
murmur
yackety-yak
waffling
gossip
chuntering
more ❯
“Horton made a zipping motion across his lips in an attempt to stop his friend from carrying on with his nonsense.”
Noun
▲
Overly bombastic or grandiloquent talk or writing
grandiloquence
bluster
magniloquence
pomposity
braggadocio
rodomontade
wind
bombast
gas
gasconade
pretentiousness
affectedness
grandiosity
oratory
ostentation
rhetoric
guff
affectation
bombastry
verboseness
hot air
purple prose
rant
turgidity
fustian
bragging
euphuism
boasting
balderdash
loftiness
more ❯
“His biography is eminently sensible on a subject about which much high-flown transcendental nonsense has been written.”
Noun
▲
Mischievous or foolish (and typically annoying) behavior
mischievousness
naughtiness
misbehaviourUK
mischief
misbehaviorUS
pranks
tricks
roguery
shenanigans
capers
devilry
tomfoolery
larks
badness
diablerie
misconduct
misdemeanorUS
misdemeanourUK
perversity
deviltry
clowning
jesting
joking
buffoonery
hanky-panky
bad behaviour
carry-on
jiggery-pokery
carryings-on
goings-on
funny business
monkey business
monkey tricks
more ❯
“Lately, she'd put up with more than her share of nonsense and shenanigans from John Blake. A woman could only take so much.”
Noun
▲
The state or quality of being absurd or ridiculous
stupidity
absurdity
folly
idiocy
inanity
ridiculousness
silliness
fatuity
ludicrousness
foolhardiness
foolishness
pointlessness
senselessness
insanity
madness
lunacy
craziness
imbecility
brainlessness
preposterousness
asininity
wackiness
witlessness
nuttiness
daftness
fatuousness
zaniness
nonsensicalness
dottiness
dippiness
more ❯
“Surely it is an economic nonsense to deplete the world of natural resources.”
Noun
▲
Something that is trivial or of little importance
minutiae
triviality
frivolity
frippery
minutia
inessential
nonproblem
non-essential
small detail
minor detail
minor technicality
small technicality
little thing
minor thing
petty detail
small beer
much ado about nothing
small potatoes
matter of no consequence
matter of no importance
no big thing
no great matter
thing of no consequence
thing of no importance
trifle
froth
small change
trivialities
trifles
nothing
more ❯
“Please, my dear, do not concern yourself with such nonsense. We have more pressing matters to attend to.”
Noun
▲
Frivolous or lighthearted behavior
madness
silliness
nonsensicalness
nuttiness
wackiness
shenanigans
buffoonery
zaniness
foolery
clowning
fatuousness
dottiness
horseplay
hijinks
dippiness
skylarking
childishness
clownery
frivolity
facetiousness
flippancy
goofiness
humorUS
humourUK
ludicrosity
monkeying
monkeyshines
tomfoolery
frivolousness
jocularity
lightheartedness
playfulness
fun
drollery
flightiness
gaiety
humorousness
jocoseness
jocosity
merriment
mirth
risibility
wisecracking
witticism
comicalness
drollness
farcicality
farcicalness
funniness
jesting
jokiness
levity
mirthfulness
waggishness
whimsicality
banter
cloddishness
clownishness
doltishness
foppery
joyfulness
whimsy
high jinks
horsing around
light-heartedness
monkey business
more ❯
Noun
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A story or claim that is untrue
fiction
falsehood
fabrication
lie
untruth
fib
invention
prevarication
fantasy
whopper
fancy
illusion
porky
concoction
figment
misrepresentation
sham
imagination
deceit
bulldust
phantasy
smoke
improvisation
crock
fibs
lies
creativity
hooey
unrealism
trumped-up story
fake news
tall story
alternative fact
figment of the imagination
cock and bull story
terminological inexactitude
pork pie
fish story
figment of imagination
made up story
more ❯
Noun
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A long and complicated procedure that seems tiresome or pointless
rigmarole
bother
fuss
trouble
ado
kerfuffle
ballyhoo
hullabaloo
hoopla
hassle
pantomime
folderol
procedure
commotion
pother
performance
ritual
to-do
carry-on
hoo-ha
carrying-on
fuss and bother
bobsy-die
lengthy process
red tape
tedious business
palaver
trappings
paraphernalia
stir
more ❯
Noun
▲
Something said to cause amusement or laughter
joke
jest
gag
quip
witticism
wisecrack
crack
josh
funny
pun
jape
pleasantry
giggle
boff
boffo
boffola
drollery
humorUS
humourUK
lark
laugh
nifty
rib
waggery
yuck
yuk
absurdity
banter
blague
buffoonery
chestnut
killer
raillery
repartee
ridiculousness
whimsy
anecdote
burlesque
epigram
one-liner
in-joke
rib-tickler
funny story
bon mot
knee-slapper
thigh-slapper
double entendre
old chestnut
shaggy-dog story
play on words
ha-ha
more ❯
Noun
▲
An event or situation that is absurd, disorganized or fake
farce
joke
mockery
sham
travesty
absurdity
parody
shambles
charade
caricature
cartoon
masquerade
pretenceUK
pretenseUS
apology
excuse
malarkey
ridiculousness
circus
disgrace
embarrassment
laughing stock
piece of futility
waste of time
laughingstock
butt of jokes
object of derision
standing joke
figure of fun
object of ridicule
more ❯
Noun
▲
Deception by use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge
chicanery
legerdemain
skulduggery
subterfuge
trickery
deceit
deceitfulness
artifice
cheating
chicane
deception
deviousness
duplicity
fraudulence
hanky-panky
intrigue
sophistry
underhandedness
unscrupulousness
wiles
craftiness
duping
guile
hoodwinking
jiggery-pokery
swindling
artfulness
crookedness
dishonesty
dodge
double-dealing
flimflam
fraud
gamesmanship
jugglery
sharp practice
shenanigans
skullduggery
slyness
stratagems
wile
codology
double-crossing
feint
fourberie
furtiveness
gambit
knavery
machination
management
maneuverUS
manoeuvreUK
monkeyshines
plot
ploy
ruse
stratagem
surreptitiousness
talk
verbiage
waffle
wire-pulling
funny business
misleading talk
monkey business
hot air
smoke and mirrors
more ❯
Noun
▲
The quality of being incoherent
incoherence
disjointedness
inarticulateness
unintelligibility
confusedness
confusion
disconnectedness
disorganisationUK
disorganizationUS
illogicality
incongruity
rambling
disconnection
dislocation
disjuncture
disjunction
separation
disunion
division
split
divorce
detachment
severance
parting
disseverment
inarticulacy
incomprehensibility
inaudibility
unclearness
indistinctness
Noun
▲
The action of pretending or imagining that things are a certain way
pretenceUK
pretenseUS
fantasy
delusion
dream
illusion
unreality
fancy
fiction
imagination
daydreaming
dreaming
romancing
fairy tale
make-believe
self-deception
castles in the air
charade
pretending
play-acting
fabrication
invention
masquerade
game
fakery
playacting
dissimulation
pageant
pretentiousness
pretension
sham
disguise
role-playing
story
Noun
▲
Excessively lengthy or technical speech or writing
verbiage
redundancy
verbosity
prolixity
circumlocution
long-windedness
wordiness
verboseness
expansiveness
lengthiness
padding
periphrasis
prolixness
superfluity
circuitousness
convolution
diffuseness
diffusion
digressiveness
discursiveness
garrulity
garrulousness
logorrhea
meandering
protractedness
rambling
repetition
tautology
verbalism
waffle
wandering
windiness
wordage
flannel
logorrhoea
pleonasm
waffling
wittering
floridity
gobbledygook
loquacity
periphrase
more ❯
Noun
▲
Rumour, gossip, or speculation
talk
gossip
hearsay
rumorUS
rumourUK
speculation
whispers
allusion
innuendo
insinuation
bunk
goss
grapevine
hint
jive
scuttlebutt
tattle
tittle-tattle
lip
muckraking
racket
reports
rubbish
rumble
trash
yarn
fake news
hot air
conspiracy theory
word of mouth
second-hand information
secondhand information
empty talk
more ❯
Interjection
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Used to express that what was recently said is nonsense or untrue
rubbish
baloney
balderdash
garbage
hogwash
bunkum
codswallop
bosh
tosh
bullcrap
bah humbug
what drivel
what a load of tripe
drivel
Interjection
▲
Stupid, dumb
derp
dumb
stupid
absurd
claptrap
dense
dim
moronic
poppycock
silly
Verb
▲
To linger aimlessly
fiddlefart
goof off
slack
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