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nonsensical
adjective
1 nonsensical
So unreasonable as to invite derision:
— Ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer.
synonyms: absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, preposterous, ridiculous.
Roget 499:
unintelligent
[Applied to persons],
unintellectual,
unreasoning;
mindless,
witless,
reasoningless†,
brainless;
halfbaked;
having no head
etc.
498;
not bright
etc.
498;
inapprehensible†.
weak headed,
addle headed,
puzzle headed,
blunder headed,
muddle headed,
muddy headed,
pig headed,
beetle headed,
buffle headed†,
chuckle headed,
mutton headed,
maggoty headed,
grossheaded†;
beef headed,
fat witted,
fat-headed.
weak-minded,
feeble-minded;
dull minded,
shallow minded,
lack-brained;
rattle-brained,
rattle headed;
half witted,
lean witted,
short witted,
dull witted,
blunt-witted,
shallow-pated†,
clod-pated†,
addle-pated†,
addle-brained†;
dim-sighted,
short-sighted;
thick-skulled;
weak in the upper story.
shallow,
borne,
weak,
wanting,
soft,
sappy,
spoony;
dull,
dull as a beetle;
stupid,
heavy,
insulse†,
obtuse,
blunt,
stolid,
doltish;
asinine;
inapt
etc.
699;
prosaic
etc.
843;
hebetudinous†.
childish,
child-like;
infantine†,
infantile,
babyish,
babish†;
puerile,
anile;
simple
etc.
(credulous)
486;
old-womanish.
fatuous,
idiotic,
imbecile,
driveling;
blatant,
babbling;
vacant;
sottish;
bewildered
etc.
475.
blockish†,
unteachable Boeotian,
Boeotic;
bovine;
ungifted,
undiscerning†,
unenlightened,
unwise,
unphilosophical†;
apish;
simious†.
foolish,
silly,
senseless,
irrational,
insensate,
nonsensical,
inept;
maudlin.
narrow-minded
etc.
481;
bigoted
etc.
(obstinate)
606;
giddy
etc.
(thoughtless)
458;
rash
etc.
863;
eccentric
etc.
(crazed)
503.
[Applied to actions]
foolish,
unwise,
injudicious,
improper,
unreasonable,
without reason,
ridiculous,
absurd,
idiotic,
silly,
stupid,
asinine;
ill-imagined,
ill-advised,
ill-judged,
ill-devised;
mal entendu [Fr.];
inconsistent,
irrational,
unphilosophical†;
extravagant
etc.
(nonsensical)
497;
sleeveless,
idle;
pointless,
useless
etc.
645;
inexpedient
etc.
647;
frivolous
etc.
(trivial)
643.
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Roget 517:
unmeaning;
meaningless,
senseless;
nonsensical;
void of sense
etc.
516.
inexpressive,
unexpressive;
vacant;
not significant
etc.
516;
insignificant.
trashy,
washy,
trumpery,
trivial,
fiddle-faddle,
twaddling,
quibbling.
unmeant,
not expressed;
tacit
etc.
(latent)
526.
inexpressible,
undefinable,
incommunicable.
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Roget 497:
absurd,
nonsensical,
preposterous,
egregious,
senseless,
inconsistent,
ridiculous,
extravagant,
quibbling;
self-annulling,
self-contradictory;
macaronic†,
punning.
foolish
etc.
499;
sophistical
etc.
477;
unmeaning
etc.
517;
without rhyme or reason;
fantastic.
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Roget 477:
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 [Lat.],
it does not follow.
deceptive,
sophistical,
jesuitical;
illusive,
illusory;
specious,
hollow,
plausible,
ad captandum [Lat.],
evasive;
irrelevant
etc.
10.
weak,
feeble,
poor,
flimsy,
loose,
vague.
irrational;
nonsensical
etc.
(absurd)
497.
foolish
etc.
(imbecile)
499;
frivolous,
pettifogging,
quibbling;
finespun†,
overrefined†.
at the end of one's tether,
au bout de son latin.
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2 nonsensical
Having no intelligible meaning:
— A nonsensical jumble of words.
synonym: nonsense.
Polish: bezsensowny, bezsensowy, nonsensowny
Moby thesaurus: Pickwickian, absurd, asinine, askew, beyond belief, bizarre, cockamamie, crazy, dumb, extravagant, fantastic, fool, foolish, grotesque, high-flown, idiotic, imbecilic, incredible, irrational, laughable, loony, ludicrous, mad, meaningless, monstrous, moronic, nutty, outrageous, outre, poppycockish, preposterous, ridiculous, rubbishy, screwball, screwy, senseless, silly, skimble-skamble, stupid, trashy, twaddling, twaddly, warped, weird, wild ... show more.
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