Thesaurus / nonsensical
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RoboKiller takes a cheeky approach to fighting scammers by helping screen scam calls — and wasting the scammers’ time by engaging them in nonsensical conversations.
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To rule out “nonsensical” designs, the researchers developed an animal-inspired “graph grammar”—a set of rules for how parts can be connected, says Allan Zhao, a PhD student in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
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In any other era, this caption would be totally nonsensical — Valentine’s Day by Dada.
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Even when it was done, such as on YouTube’s closed-captioning option, the result was often nonsensical.
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Veresen continued to maintain publicly that it was planning to import natural gas, but as the plan became increasingly nonsensical, the company looked to exports as an alternative.
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It is nonsensical to parch one's throat with thirst when a kindly Mahomedan is ready to offer pure water to drink.
THIRD CLASS IN INDIAN RAILWAYSMAHATMA GANDHI
Needless to add that this is ambitious confectioner's verse, intentionally nonsensical.
CYRANO DE BERGERACEDMOND ROSTAND
He appeared to find intense pleasure in this nonsensical sort of work.
STORIES ABOUT ANIMALS: WITH PICTURES TO MATCHFRANCIS C. WOODWORTH
Such reasoning is exceedingly poetical, and also (mind, also, not therefore) exceedingly nonsensical.
I notice there's no nonsensical chatter when you want to ask for something to eat.
SPACE PRISONTOM GODWIN
WORDS RELATED TO NONSENSICAL
- absurd
- asinine
- brainless
- cockamamy
- crazy
- daffy
- daft
- dippy
- doltish
- dotty
- fantastic
- fatuous
- feebleminded
- half-baked
- half-witted
- harebrained
- idiotic
- ill-advised
- ill-considered
- imbecilic
- imprudent
- incautious
- indiscreet
- injudicious
- insane
- irrational
- jerky
- kooky
- loony
- ludicrous
- lunatic
- mad
- moronic
- nerdy
- nonsensical
- nutty
- preposterous
- ridiculous
- senseless
- short-sighted
- silly
- simple
- softheaded
- stupid
- tomfool
- unearthly
- unintelligent
- unreasonable
- unwise
- wacky
- weak
- witless
- zany
- aberrant
- absurd
- bananas
- batty
- crazed
- cuckoo
- daft
- delirious
- demented
- deranged
- distracted
- fantastic
- foolhardy
- foolish
- frantic
- frenetic
- frenzied
- illogical
- imprudent
- invalid
- irrational
- kooky
- loony
- ludicrous
- lunatic
- mental
- non compos mentis
- nonsensical
- nutty
- of unsound mind
- off one's rocker
- out of one's mind
- preposterous
- psychotic
- rabid
- raving
- senseless
- unbalanced
- unhinged
- unreasonable
- unsafe
- unsound
- unstable
- wacky
- aberrant
- absurd
- bananas
- batty
- crazed
- cuckoo
- daft
- delirious
- demented
- deranged
- distracted
- fantastic
- foolhardy
- foolish
- frantic
- frenetic
- frenzied
- illogical
- imprudent
- invalid
- irrational
- kooky
- loony
- ludicrous
- lunatic
- mental
- non compos mentis
- nonsensical
- nutty
- of unsound mind
- off one's rocker
- out of one's mind
- preposterous
- psychotic
- rabid
- raving
- senseless
- unbalanced
- unhinged
- unreasonable
- unsafe
- unsound
- unstable
- wacky
- absurd
- aimless
- blank
- doesn't cut it
- double-talk
- doublespeak
- empty
- feckless
- fustian
- futile
- good-for-nothing
- hollow
- hot air
- inane
- inconsequential
- insignificant
- insubstantial
- nonsensical
- nothing
- nugatory
- pointless
- purportless
- purposeless
- senseless
- trifling
- trivial
- unimportant
- unmeaning
- unpurposed
- useless
- vacant
- vague
- vain
- valueless
- vapid
- worthless
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.