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as in absurd
conceived or made without regard for reason or reality
a nonsensical decision that didn't take account of all of the facts
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as in silly
showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment
your plan to lose weight through total starvation is completely nonsensical
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Recent Examples of nonsensical
The speed at which Gen Alpha has been churning out new, often nonsensical, slang has been fast and furious throughout 2025.
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Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 31 Dec. 2025
According to Sameer Vohra, pediatrician and director of the Illinois Department of Health, HHS’ logic is nonsensical.
—Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 19 Dec. 2025
For more than 50 years, America’s official position on marijuana has been seen as nonsensical.
—Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2025
On disagreements, debates, playful nonsensical bits, witty banter, teasing, laughing, chatting.
—Meg Walters, Glamour, 15 Dec. 2025
Once, these frameworks were endearing instances of middle-schoolers making sense of the nonsensical.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 27 Nov. 2025
Short nonsensical first contact.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 20 Nov. 2025
Carroll’s Victorian era story told of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole (and, in the second novel, goes through a looking glass) to land in a fantastical and nonsensical world of talking and human-like animals.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 11 Nov. 2025
Below, the two — whose FNL jersey numbers finally give actual meaning to the nonsensical 6-7 meme — put the ball down and talk life then and now.
—Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE, 6 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonsensical
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After the first Roundtable, Survivor stalwart Rob Cesternino — perhaps clued in by Candiace’s absurd conga line ploy to get people out of the kitchen — sniffed out that a murder in plain sight could be happening.—
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Contrary to what many may think, the researchers found no correlation between a person’s level of education and their capacity to believe in absurd conspiracies.—
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To say the road to the Super Bowl goes through Jacksonville sounds silly in the NFL’s grand scheme, but for a talented and decorated Bills group that never has won there, that’s the first stop on the quest.—
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Citing the Monroe Doctrine is silly.—
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His work is marked by unusual, even bizarre, material choices that encrust spatial compositions reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright’s innovative open space plans.—
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Some unnamed Chicago bartender in the early 1880s had the improbable idea of taking a Whiskey Sour and adding a little red wine to the top, inventing in a bizarre flash of insightone of the great warm weather whiskey drinks of our time.—
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In tribute to Michael Keane’s hair-pulling on Wednesday, Cerys Jones picked through the stupidest dismissals in Premier League history.—
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To do a lot less foolish, thoughtless, stupid, idiotic things.—
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To do a lot less foolish, thoughtless, stupid, idiotic things.—
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No one should be defending activists who engage in the most foolish and dangerous actions!—
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Or why roads and other critical infrastructure projects now take untold years and insane amounts of money to complete, and by the time they are finally opened are already rendered all but obsolete?—
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In this abjectly insane political environment that Minnesotans have created for themselves, the federal agent has about as much chance of a fair trial as the Vikings have of winning this year’s Super Bowl, which is to say, none.—
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Finally standing in front of each other, sharing our vows with our closest family and friends, felt unreal.—
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The final form of the Mind Flayer, that crazy big Lovecraftian thing, looks unreal.—
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Peterson’s 30-plus point scoring output (on 8-of-18 shooting, 3-of-8 from 3, 13-15 from line) helped make possible a crazy comeback victory.—
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Or at least the craziest until Malinin began doing on ice back flips during the 2024-25 season after the International Skating Union, the sport’s global governing body, lifted a ban on the stunt.—
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“Nonsensical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonsensical. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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