WordNet Search - 3.1
-
WordNet home page
-
Glossary
-
Help
Word to search for:
Display Options:
(Select option to change)
Hide Example Sentences
Hide Glosses
Show Frequency Counts
Show Database Locations
Show Lexical File Info
Show Lexical File Numbers
Show Sense Keys
Show Sense Numbers
Show all
Hide all
Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
Display options for sense: (gloss) "an example sentence"
Noun
S:
(n)
balderdash
,
fiddle-faddle
,
piffle
(trivial nonsense)
direct hypernym
/
inherited hypernym
/
sister term
S:
(n)
nonsense
,
bunk
,
nonsensicality
,
meaninglessness
,
hokum
(a message that seems to convey no meaning)
S:
(n)
absurdity
,
absurdness
,
ridiculousness
(a message whose content is at variance with reason)
S:
(n)
amphigory
,
nonsense verse
(nonsensical writing (usually verse))
S:
(n)
balderdash
,
fiddle-faddle
,
piffle
(trivial nonsense)
S:
(n)
buzzword
,
cant
(stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition)
S:
(n)
cobblers
(nonsense)
"I think that is a load of cobblers"
S:
(n)
crock
(nonsense; foolish talk)
"that's a crock"
S:
(n)
fa la
,
fal la
(meaningless syllables in the refrain of a partsong)
S:
(n)
gibberish
,
gibber
(unintelligible talking)
S:
(n)
incoherence
,
incoherency
,
unintelligibility
(nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible)
S:
(n)
jabberwocky
(nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll))
S:
(n)
mummery
,
flummery
(meaningless ceremonies and flattery)
S:
(n)
palaver
,
hot air
,
empty words
,
empty talk
,
rhetoric
(loud and confused and empty talk)
"mere rhetoric"
S:
(n)
rigmarole
,
rigamarole
(a set of confused and meaningless statements)
S:
(n)
shmegegge
,
schmegegge
((Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense)
S:
(n)
stuff
,
stuff and nonsense
,
hooey
,
poppycock
(senseless talk)
"don't give me that stuff"
S:
(n)
baloney
,
boloney
,
bilgewater
,
bosh
,
drool
,
humbug
,
taradiddle
,
tarradiddle
,
tommyrot
,
tosh
,
twaddle
(pretentious or silly talk or writing)
derivationally related form