Tuesday, April 16, 2013

N is for Nonsense


Nonsense: craziness, ridiculousness.

One of the words that has been swirling around my brain since hearing about the explosions at the Boston Marathon.
Along with Prayer, Sorrow,Why.....
Prayers to Boston.

Synonyms: absurdity, babble, balderdash, baloney, bananas, bombast, bull, bunk, claptrap, drivel, fatuity, flightiness, folly, foolishness, fun, gibberish, giddiness, hogwash, hooey, hot air, imprudence, inanity, irrationality, jazz, jest, jive, joke, ludicrousness, madness, mumbo jumbo, palaver, poppycock, prattle, pretense, ranting, rashness, rot, rubbish, scrawl, scribble, senselessness, silliness, soft soap, stupidity, thoughtlessness, trash, tripe


nonsense. Thesaurus.com. Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition. Philip Lief Group 2009. http://thesaurus.com/browse/nonsense (accessed: April 15, 2013).





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