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How to pronounce “nonsense

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Pronunciation guide for nonsense

Learning goal
Practice the English pronunciation of nonsense with real speech in context.
Available examples
8 YouTube examples
Real speech example
The Science of Curing Agingand all that kind of nonsense.
Definition summary
Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning.

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How to pronounce nonsense

The Science of Curing Aging

and all that kind of nonsense.

Example Sentences

A Deep Dive Into “nonsense

Meaning

  • [Noun]
  • Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning.
  • An untrue statement.
  • That which is silly, illogical and lacks any meaning, reason or value; that which does not make sense.
  • Something foolish.
  • (literature) A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by Edward Lear.
  • (biology) A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.
  • [Verb]
  • To make nonsense of;
  • To attempt to dismiss as nonsense; to ignore or belittle the significance of something; to render unimportant or puny.
  • (intransitive) To joke around, to waste time
  • [Adjective]
  • Nonsensical.
  • (biochemistry) Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon (not coding for an amino-acid).
  • [Interjection]
  • An emphatic rejection of something one has just heard and does not believe or agree with.

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