nonsense
noun · verb · adjective · interjectionB1Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(uncountable, usually)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.
- 2.
(uncountable, usually)An untrue statement.
- 3.
(uncountable, usually)That which is silly, illogical and lacks any meaning, reason or value; that which does not make sense.
- 4.
(uncountable, usually)Something foolish.
- 5.
(uncountable, usually)(literature) A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by Edward Lear.
- 6.
(uncountable, usually)(biology) A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.
Động từ
verb- 1.
To make nonsense of;
- 2.
To attempt to dismiss as nonsense; to ignore or belittle the significance of something; to render unimportant or puny.
Đồng nghĩa: belittle, dismiss, pooh-pooh, rubbish
- 3.
(intransitive)To joke around, to waste time
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
Nonsensical.
- 2.
(biochemistry) Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon (not coding for an amino-acid).
interjection
interjectionnonsencenon-sense
- 1.
An emphatic rejection of something one has just heard and does not believe or agree with.
Từ liên quan
Đồng nghĩa
Cùng gốc / liên quan
Từ có viền nét liền là đã có mục từ; viền nét đứt là chưa có trong dữ liệu.
Nguồn gốc từ
non- sense From non- + sense, from c. 1610. Compare the semantically similar ûnsin, onzin, Unsinn, unsense.