Words and phrases that have a meaning related to nonsense: (198 results)
Often used in the same context:
hogwash, guff, baloney, balderdash, poppycock, tosh, malarkey, codswallop, hooey, crap, bunkum, twaddle, claptrap, humbug, bollocks, drivel, hyperbole, mumbo jumbo, hokum, tommyrot, blather, crapola, piffle, bluster, gobbledygook, psychobabble, sophistry, idiocy, posturing, lunacy, flapdoodle, silliness, moron, lunatic, platitudes, nutter, bafflegab, buffoon, cliches, doublespeak, foolishness, killjoy, loudmouth, moralizing, facetiousness, idiots, arrogance, fluff, falsehood, pussyfooting, pomposity, rubbish, palaver, puffery, crackpot, tripe, officiousness, pompousness, hectoring, politically correct, tosspot, whining, hardass, pretense, antithesis, babble, harrumphing, boastfulness, gobbledegook, pseudo, braggadocio, ranting, pantywaist, political correctness, bravado, pablum, untruth, ignoramuses, sirree, fallacy, nastiness, quibblers, exaggeration, bollox, jingoism, rotters, foolery, jibes, dogmatist, pretension, churlishness, carping, bombast, vacuousness, excuses, shrinking violet, antisemite, absurdity, absurdities, folly, gibberish, tomfoolery, fools, falsehoods, fool, extravagances, approachable, folksy, enigmatic, enigmatical, ish, jocular, noncommittal, effacing, flippant, homely, pamby, prissy, unassuming, uncouth, unemotional, upbeat, urbane, whimsical, bombastic, businesslike
More specific:
absurdness, amphigory, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, buzzword, cant, drool, empty talk, empty words, fal la, fa la, fiddle-faddle, flummery, gibber, hot air, incoherence, incoherency, mummery, nonsense verse, rhetoric, ridiculousness, rigamarole, rigmarole, stuff, stuff and nonsense, taradiddle, tarradiddle, unintelligibility
Appears in the definition of:
abracadabra, balderdash, buzzword, cant, cobblers, crock, doo-wop, edward lear, fiddle-faddle, footle, hardball, heatedly, incoherence, incoherency, lear, metagrobolized, no-nonsense, patently, piffle, scat, scat singing, schmegegge, shmegegge, talk, unintelligibility
More general:
content, message, subject matter, substance, sundries, sundry, whatchamacallit, whatsis
Synonyms:
Also try:falderal, folderol, frills, gimcrackery, gimcracks, meaningless, meaninglessness, nonsensical, nonsensicality, trumpery
— Nouns for nonsense: syllables, words, approach, attitude, manner, mutations, style, guide, material, tone, voice, more...
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