N. absurdity,
absurdness,
imbecility, alogy|, nonsense, utter nonsense,
paradox,
inconsistency,
stultiloquy,
stultiloquence,
nugacity,
blunder,
muddle, bull, irishism|, hibernicism|,
slipslop,
anticlimax,
bathos,
sophism,
farce, galimathias, amphigouri,
rhapsody,
farrago, betise,
extravagance, romance,
sciamachy, sell,
pun, verbal quibble,
macaronic,
jargon,
fustian,
twaddle,
gibberish,
exaggeration,
moonshine, stuff, mare's nest,
quibble,
self-delusion,
vagary,
tomfoolery, poppycock,
mummery, monkey trick,
boutade,
escapade V. play the fool, talk nonsense, parler a tort et a travess, battre la campagne, ἀνεμώλια βάζειν be -absurd
Adj. absurd,
nonsensical,
preposterous,
egregious, senseless, inconsistent,
ridiculous,
extravagant,
quibbling, self-annulling, self- contradictory,
macaronic,
punning,
foolish,
sophistical, unmeaning, without rhyme or reason,
fantastic Phr. credat judaeus apella, tell it to the marines, faculties
Int. fiddlededee,
pish, pho, "in the name of the prophet—figs!"
N. meaninglessness, unmeaningness,
scrabble, empty sound, dead letter, vox et praeterea nihil, "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing", "sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal." nonsense, utter nonsense,
gibberish,
jargon,
jabber, mere words, hocus-pocus,
fustian,
rant,
bombast,
balderdash,
palaver,
flummery,
verbiage,
babble, baverdage, baragouin,
platitude, niaiserie,
inanity, flap-doodle,
rigmarole,
rodomontade,
truism, nugae canorae,
twaddle,
twattle,
fudge,
trash,
garbage,
humbug, poppy-cock, stuff, stuff and nonsense,
bosh,
rubbish,
moonshine,
wish-wash,
fiddle-faddle,
absurdity, vagueness, boilerplate
Adj. unmeaning, meaningless, senseless,
nonsensical, void of sense, inexpressive, unexpressive,
vacant, not significant, insignificant,
trashy,
washy,
trumpery,
trivial,
fiddle-faddle,
twaddling,
quibbling, unmeant, not expressed,
tacit, inexpressible,
undefinable,
incommunicable N. ridiculousness,
comicality,
oddity,
extravagance,
drollery,
farce, comedy,
burlesque,
buffoonery,
frippery, doggerel verses,
absurdity,
bombast,
anticlimax,
bathos,
eccentricity,
monstrosity,
laughingstock V. be ridiculous, pass from the sublime to the ridiculous, make one laugh, play the fool, make a fool of oneself, commit an absurdity
Adj. ridiculous,
ludicrous,
comical,
droll,
funny,
laughable, pour rire,
grotesque,
farcical, odd,
whimsical, whimsical as a dancing bear,
fanciful,
fantastic, queer,
rum,
quizzical,
quaint,
bizarre,
screaming,
eccentric, strange,
outlandish, out of the way,
baroque,
weird,
awkward,
extravagant,
outre,
monstrous,
preposterous,
bombastic, inflated,
stilted,
burlesque, mock heroic,
drollish, seriocomic, tragicomic,
gimcrack, contemptible,
doggerel,
ironical, risible
Phr. risum teneatis amici, rideret heraclitus, du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas
