Слово англійською: nonsense
Іменник
Переклад nonsense українською: дурниця, нісенітниця; безглуздя; абсурд; дрібниця, пусте, that's all ~ — усе це пусте (дурниці), to talk ~ — верзти дурниці, навіженство; дурна поведінка; безглузді вчинки
Детальний опис
nonsense
noun /ˈnɑːnsens/, /ˈnɑːnsns/
- [uncountable, countable] ideas, statements or beliefs that you think are silly or not true synonym rubbish (3)
- Reports that he has resigned are nonsense.
- You're talking nonsense!
- ‘I won't go.’ ‘Nonsense! You must go!’
- It's nonsense to say they don't care.
- The idea is an economic nonsense.
- Ministers have dismissed the rumours of a bribery scandal as nonsense.
- [uncountable] spoken or written words that have no meaning or make no sense
- a book of children’s nonsense poems
- Most of the translation he did for me was complete nonsense.
- The whole article seemed like complete nonsense to me.
- [uncountable] silly or unacceptable behaviour
- The new teacher won't stand for any nonsense.
- I can't wait for this nonsense to end so that we can all be friends again.
see also no-nonsense
Idioms make (a) nonsense of something
- to reduce the value of something by a lot; to make something seem silly
- If people can bribe police officers, it makes a complete nonsense of the legal system.
- The unemployment figures make nonsense of talk of an economic recovery.
- This decision makes absolute nonsense of all our hard work.
- (old-fashioned, informal) used to say that something is stupid or not true