Nonsensical

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