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NONSENSICAL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having no intelligible meaning
Example:
a nonsensical jumble of words
Synonyms:
nonsense; nonsensical
Classified under:
Similar:
meaningless; nonmeaningful (having no meaning or direction or purpose)
Derivation:
nonsensicality (a message that seems to convey no meaning)
Sense 2
Meaning:
So unreasonable as to invite derision
Example:
her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous
Synonyms:
absurd; cockeyed; derisory; idiotic; laughable; ludicrous; nonsensical; preposterous; ridiculous
Classified under:
Similar:
foolish (devoid of good sense or judgment)
Context examples:
Wasn't that nonsensical?
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I replied, with all due deference to his experience (but with more deference, I am afraid, to his being Dora's father), that perhaps it was a little nonsensical that the Registry of that Court, containing the original wills of all persons leaving effects within the immense province of Canterbury, for three whole centuries, should be an accidental building, never designed for the purpose, leased by the registrars for their Own private emolument, unsafe, not even ascertained to be fire-proof, choked with the important documents it held, and positively, from the roof to the basement, a mercenary speculation of the registrars, who took great fees from the public, and crammed the public's wills away anyhow and anywhere, having no other object than to get rid of them cheaply.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
