LekhoriLekhoriLetters 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.
That which is silly, illogical and lacks any meaning, reason or value; that which does not make sense.
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.
To attempt to dismiss as nonsense; to ignore or belittle the significance of something; to render unimportant or puny.
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).
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.
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 (“nonsens...
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"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."
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.