3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Nonsensical \Non*sen"si*cal\, a. Without sense; unmeaning; absurd; foolish; irrational; preposterous. -- {Non*sen"si*cal*ly}, adv. -- {Non*sen"si*cal*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: nonsensical adj 1: completely devoid of wisdom or good sense; "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}, {preposterous}, {ridiculous}] 2: having no intelligible meaning; "nonsense syllables"; "a nonsensical jumble of words" [syn: {nonsense(a)}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 45 Moby Thesaurus words for "nonsensical": 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
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