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English
Noun
Sense: meaningless letter or words; or a false statement
Synonyms
- absurdity
- all my eye
- all my eye and Betty Martin
- applesauce (US, dated, slang)
- bafflegab
- balderdash
- balls (UK, vulgar)
- baloney (US, Australia)
- banana oil (dated)
- Bandini
- baragouin
- batcrap
- batshit
- bilgewater
- blah
- blather
- blatherskite
- bobbins (UK)
- bollocks (UK, vulgar)
- bosh
- BS
- bull
- bullcrap (vulgar)
- bulldust
- bullshit [⇒ thesaurus] (vulgar)
- bullspeak
- bunk
- bunkum
- bushwah
- clamjamfrey (Scots)
- claptrap
- cobblers (UK)
- codswallop
- crap (vulgar)
- crock (vulgar)
- crock of shit (vulgar)
- double Dutch
- double talk
- doublespeak
- drivel
- eyewash
- fiddle-faddle
- flapdoodle
- flim-flam
- flizz (MLE)
- flummery
- folderol
- foolishness
- footle
- framis
- fuckery, fuckry (vulgar, MLE and Jamaica)
- fudge (dated)
- galimatias
- garbage (US)
- garble
- gibber
- gibberish
- gobbledygook
- gossip [⇒ thesaurus]
- Greek [⇒ thesaurus]
- guff
- gup (India)
- hoax
- hocus-pocus
- hogwash
- hokum
- hooey (US)
- horsefeathers
- horse hockey (Canadian)
- horse piss (US, vulgar)
- horse puckey
- horseshit (US, vulgar)
- humbug
- Irish bull
- jabber
- jargon [⇒ thesaurus]
- jibber-jabber
- jive
- junk [⇒ thesaurus]
- lallation
- malarkey (Ireland, US, UK)
- manure
- meaninglessness
- moonshine
- mumbo jumbo
- nertz (US)
- nonsense
- pie in the sky
- piffle
- pigswill
- poppycock
- prattle [⇒ thesaurus]
- put-on
- rhubarb (chiefly UK)
- rhubarb rhubarb (chiefly UK)
- rot
- rubbish (UK)
- ruse
- santorum
- shit (vulgar)
- shite (UK, vulgar)
- skimble-skamble
- squit (UK, dialect)
- stuff (obsolete)
- stuff and nonsense
- tommy-rot (UK)
- tosh (UK)
- tush (UK)
- trash [⇒ thesaurus] (US)
- tripe (UK)
- twaddle
- wass (potentially vulgar, MLE)
- whiff-whaff (obsolete, UK)
- word salad
Usage
Sometimes preceded by "What a load of", "What a pile of", "What a bunch of", and "What a heap of".
Antonyms
Hypernyms
Various
Adjectives modifying nonsense
See also
Further reading
- “nonsense” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
- "nonsense" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011.
- "absurdity" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011.