nonsense
名词 n.
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
感叹词 intj.
英 /ˈnɒn.səns/
美 /ˈnɑn.sɛns/|/ˈnɔn.səns/
英文释义
名词 n.
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Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning.
— After my father had a stroke, every time he tried to talk, it sounded like nonsense.
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An untrue statement.
— You have seen it for yourselves in the play by Aristophanes, where Socrates goes whirling round, proclaiming that he is walking on air, and uttering a great deal of other nonsense about things of which I know nothing whatsoever.
- That which is silly, illogical and lacks any meaning, reason or value; that which does not make sense.
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Something foolish.
— and central banks lend vast sums against marshmallow backed securities, or other nonsenses creative bankers dreamed up.
- A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by Edward Lear.
- A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.
动词 v.
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To make nonsense of;
— At the Haymarket all this is nonsensed by an endeavor to steer between Mr. Stanley Weyman's rights as author of the story and the prescriptive right of the leading actor to fight popularly and heroically against heavy odds.
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To attempt to dismiss as nonsense; to ignore or belittle the significance of something; to render unimportant or puny.
— "They haven't nonsensed these workouts. They've taken them and used them very well. I didn't know how they'd respond, but they've responded."
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To joke around, to waste time
— When he meant "go and get one" he said to go and get one, with no nonsensing around about "liking" to get one.
形容词 adj.
- Nonsensical.
- Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon (not coding for an amino-acid).
感叹词 intj.
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An emphatic rejection of something one has just heard and does not believe or agree with.
— The operators present this as a passenger benefit by claiming it provides early notice. Nonsense! This just means that passengers can't find any information about the train they thought they were catching. It simply disappears.
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近义词
all my eye
all my eye and Betty Martin
applesauce
bafflegab
balderdash
balls
baloney
banana oil
Bandini
baragouin
batcrap
batshit
bilgewater
blah
blather
blatherskite
bobbins
bollocks
bosh
BS
bull
bullcrap
bulldust
bull feathers
bullshit
bullspeak
bunk
bunkum
bushwah
clamjamfrey
claptrap
cobblers
codswallop
crap
crock
crock of shit
double Dutch
double talk
doublespeak
dribble
drivel
eyewash
fiddle-faddle
flapdoodle
flim-flam
flizz
flummery
folderol
foolishness
footle
framis
fuckery
fuckry
fudge
galimatias
Gallophone
garbage
garble
gash
gibber
gibberish
gobbledygook
gossip
Greek
guff
gup
hoax
hocus-pocus
hogwash
hokum
hooey
horse cock
horsefeathers
horse hockey
horse piss
horse puckey
horseshit
humbug
Irish bull
jabber
jabberwocky
jargon
jibber-jabber
jimjam
jive
junk
lallation
macaroni
malarkey
manure
meaninglessness
moonshine
mumbo jumbo
nertz
nonsense
pie in the sky
piffle
pigswill
poppycock
prattle
put-on
rhubarb
rhubarb rhubarb
rigmarole
rot
ruse
santorum
shit
shite
skimble-skamble
squit
stuff
stuff and nonsense
tommy-rot
trittle trattle
tush
trash
tripe
twaddle
wass
whiff-whaff
word salad
词源
词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Germanic *ne
Proto-Indo-European *ís?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos
Proto-Germanic *ainaz
Proto-Germanic *nainaz
Proto-West Germanic *nain
Old English nān
Middle English non
▲
Old English nān
Old English nān-
Middle English non-
English non-
Proto-Indo-European *sent-der.
Proto-Italic *sentjō
Latin sentiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin sēnsusbor.
Proto-Germanic *sinnaz
Frankish *sinnbor.
Vulgar Latin *sennus
Old French sensbor.
Middle English sense
English sense
English nonsense
From non- (“no, none, lack of”) + sense, from c. 1610. Compare the semantically similar West Frisian ûnsin (“nonsense”), Dutch onzin (“nonsense”), German Unsinn (“nonsense”), English unsense (“nonsense”).
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Germanic *ne
Proto-Indo-European *ís?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos
Proto-Germanic *ainaz
Proto-Germanic *nainaz
Proto-West Germanic *nain
Old English nān
Middle English non
▲
Old English nān
Old English nān-
Middle English non-
English non-
Proto-Indo-European *sent-der.
Proto-Italic *sentjō
Latin sentiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin sēnsusbor.
Proto-Germanic *sinnaz
Frankish *sinnbor.
Vulgar Latin *sennus
Old French sensbor.
Middle English sense
English sense
English nonsense
From non- (“no, none, lack of”) + sense, from c. 1610. Compare the semantically similar West Frisian ûnsin (“nonsense”), Dutch onzin (“nonsense”), German Unsinn (“nonsense”), English unsense (“nonsense”).
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Germanic *ne
Proto-Indo-European *ís?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos
Proto-Germanic *ainaz
Proto-Germanic *nainaz
Proto-West Germanic *nain
Old English nān
Middle English non
▲
Old English nān
Old English nān-
Middle English non-
English non-
Proto-Indo-European *sent-der.
Proto-Italic *sentjō
Latin sentiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin sēnsusbor.
Proto-Germanic *sinnaz
Frankish *sinnbor.
Vulgar Latin *sennus
Old French sensbor.
Middle English sense
English sense
English nonsense
From non- (“no, none, lack of”) + sense, from c. 1610. Compare the semantically similar West Frisian ûnsin (“nonsense”), Dutch onzin (“nonsense”), German Unsinn (“nonsense”), English unsense (“nonsense”).
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Germanic *ne
Proto-Indo-European *ís?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos
Proto-Germanic *ainaz
Proto-Germanic *nainaz
Proto-West Germanic *nain
Old English nān
Middle English non
▲
Old English nān
Old English nān-
Middle English non-
English non-
Proto-Indo-European *sent-der.
Proto-Italic *sentjō
Latin sentiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin sēnsusbor.
Proto-Germanic *sinnaz
Frankish *sinnbor.
Vulgar Latin *sennus
Old French sensbor.
Middle English sense
English sense
English nonsense
From non- (“no, none, lack of”) + sense, from c. 1610. Compare the semantically similar West Frisian ûnsin (“nonsense”), Dutch onzin (“nonsense”), German Unsinn (“nonsense”), English unsense (“nonsense”).
词源 3
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Germanic *ne
Proto-Indo-European *ís?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos
Proto-Germanic *ainaz
Proto-Germanic *nainaz
Proto-West Germanic *nain
Old English nān
Middle English non
▲
Old English nān
Old English nān-
Middle English non-
English non-
Proto-Indo-European *sent-der.
Proto-Italic *sentjō
Latin sentiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin sēnsusbor.
Proto-Germanic *sinnaz
Frankish *sinnbor.
Vulgar Latin *sennus
Old French sensbor.
Middle English sense
English sense
English nonsense
From non- (“no, none, lack of”) + sense, from c. 1610. Compare the semantically similar West Frisian ûnsin (“nonsense”), Dutch onzin (“nonsense”), German Unsinn (“nonsense”), English unsense (“nonsense”).
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Germanic *ne
Proto-Indo-European *ís?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos
Proto-Germanic *ainaz
Proto-Germanic *nainaz
Proto-West Germanic *nain
Old English nān
Middle English non
▲
Old English nān
Old English nān-
Middle English non-
English non-
Proto-Indo-European *sent-der.
Proto-Italic *sentjō
Latin sentiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin sēnsusbor.
Proto-Germanic *sinnaz
Frankish *sinnbor.
Vulgar Latin *sennus
Old French sensbor.
Middle English sense
English sense
English nonsense
From non- (“no, none, lack of”) + sense, from c. 1610. Compare the semantically similar West Frisian ûnsin (“nonsense”), Dutch onzin (“nonsense”), German Unsinn (“nonsense”), English unsense (“nonsense”).
词源 4
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Germanic *ne
Proto-Indo-European *ís?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos
Proto-Germanic *ainaz
Proto-Germanic *nainaz
Proto-West Germanic *nain
Old English nān
Middle English non
▲
Old English nān
Old English nān-
Middle English non-
English non-
Proto-Indo-European *sent-der.
Proto-Italic *sentjō
Latin sentiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin sēnsusbor.
Proto-Germanic *sinnaz
Frankish *sinnbor.
Vulgar Latin *sennus
Old French sensbor.
Middle English sense
English sense
English nonsense
From non- (“no, none, lack of”) + sense, from c. 1610. Compare the semantically similar West Frisian ûnsin (“nonsense”), Dutch onzin (“nonsense”), German Unsinn (“nonsense”), English unsense (“nonsense”).
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Germanic *ne
Proto-Indo-European *ís?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos
Proto-Germanic *ainaz
Proto-Germanic *nainaz
Proto-West Germanic *nain
Old English nān
Middle English non
▲
Old English nān
Old English nān-
Middle English non-
English non-
Proto-Indo-European *sent-der.
Proto-Italic *sentjō
Latin sentiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin sēnsusbor.
Proto-Germanic *sinnaz
Frankish *sinnbor.
Vulgar Latin *sennus
Old French sensbor.
Middle English sense
English sense
English nonsense
From non- (“no, none, lack of”) + sense, from c. 1610. Compare the semantically similar West Frisian ûnsin (“nonsense”), Dutch onzin (“nonsense”), German Unsinn (“nonsense”), English unsense (“nonsense”).
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