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Nonsensical definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

NONSENS'ICAL, a. Unmeaning; absurd; foolish.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: incongruous;inviting ridicule; "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous" [syn: absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous]
2: having no intelligible meaning; "nonsense syllables"; "a nonsensical jumble of words" [syn: nonsense, nonsensical]

Merriam Webster's

adjective see nonsense I

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Nonsensical Non*sen"si*cal, a. Without sense; unmeaning; absurb; foolish; irrational; preposterous. -- Non*sen"si*cal*ly, adv. -- Non*sen"si*cal*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you say that something is nonsensical, you think it is stupid, ridiculous, or untrue. It seemed to me that Sir Robert's arguments were nonsensical... There were no nonsensical promises about reviving the economy. = absurd ADJ: usu v-link ADJ [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Absurd, foolish, silly, senseless, insensate, stupid, ill-judged, unreasonable, irrational, preposterous, unmeaning, frivolous, trifling.

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