N. unsubstantiality,
insubstantiality, nothingness,
nihility, no degree, no part, no quantity, no thing, nothing,
naught,
nil,
nullity, zero,
cipher, no one,
nobody, never a one, ne'er a one, no such thing, none in the world, nothing whatever, nothing at all, nothing on earth, not a particle, all talk,
moonshine, stuff and nonsense, matter of no importance, matter of no consequence, thing of naught, man of straw, john doe and richard roe, faggot voter, nominis umbra,
nonentity, flash in the pan, vox et praeterea nihil, shadow,
phantom, dream,
ignis fatuus, "such stuff as dreams are made of", air, thin air,
vapor,
bubble, "baseless fabric of a vision",
mockery, hollowness,
blank, void,
inanity, fool's paradise
Adj. unsubstantial, baseless, groundless, ungrounded, without foundation, having no foundation,
visionary, immaterial,
spectral,
dreamy,
shadowy,
ethereal,
airy, cloud built, cloud formed,
gossamery,
illusory, insubstantial, unreal,
vacant,
vacuous, empty,
eviscerated,
blank, hollow, nominal,
null,
inane Phr. there's nothing in it, "an ocean of dreams without a sound", 3, formal existence internal conditions
N. dimness, darkness, paleness &c. # (light color) 429, half light, demi-jour, partial shadow, partial eclipse, shadow of a shade,
glimmer, gliming,
nebulosity, cloud,
eclipse,
aurora,
dusk,
twilight, shades of evening,
crepuscule, cockshut time|, break of day,
daybreak,
dawn,
moonlight,
moonbeam,
moonglade,
moonshine,
starlight, owl's light,
candlelight,
rushlight, firelight, farthing candle
V. be dim, grow dim,
flicker,
twinkle,
glimmer,
loom, lower,
fade, pale, pale its ineffectual fire, render dim,
dim,
bedim, obscure,
darken, tone down
Adj. dim, dull,
lackluster,
dingy,
darkish, shorn of its beams, dark 421,
faint, shadowed forth,
glassy,
cloudy,
misty,
blear, muggy|,
fuliginous,
nebulous,
nebular, obnubilated, overcast,
crepuscular,
muddy,
lurid,
leaden,
dun,
dirty,
looming, pale, confused
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. untruth,
falsehood, lie, story, thing that is not,
fib,
bounce,
crammer, taradiddle,
whopper, jhuth,
forgery,
fabrication, invention, misstatement, misrepresentation,
perversion,
falsification,
gloss, suggestio falsi,
exaggeration, invention,
fabrication,
fiction,
fable, nursery tale, romance, absurd story, untrue story, false story, trumped up story, trumped up statement, thing devised by the enemy,
canard,
shave, sell,
hum, traveler's tale, canterbury tale, cock and bull story, fairy tale,
fake,
claptrap, press agent's yarn,
puff, puffery (exaggeration) 549,
myth,
moonshine,
bosh, all my eye and betty martin, mare's nest,
farce,
irony, half truth, white lie, pious fraud, mental reservation, pretense, pretext, false plea,
subterfuge,
evasion,
shift,
shuffle,
make-believe,
sham, profession, empty words, judas kiss,
disguise V. have a false meaning
Adj. untrue, false, phony, trumped up, void of foundation, without- foundation,
fictive, far from the truth, false as dicer's oaths, unfounded, ben trovato, invented,
fabulous,
fabricated,
forged,
fictitious,
factitious,
supposititious,
surreptitious,
elusory,
illusory,
ironical,
soi-disant Phr. se non e vero e ben trovato, "where none is meant that meets the ear"
N. pretext, pretense, pretension, plea|,
allegation,
advocation, ostensible motive, ostensible ground, ostensible reason, phony reason,
excuse,
subterfuge, color,
gloss,
guise, cover, loop hole, starting hole, how to creep out of,
salvo, come off, way of escape, handle, peg to hang on, room locus standi,
stalking-horse, cheval de bataille,
cue, pretense, put off, dust thrown in the eyes, blind,
moonshine, mere pretext, shallow pretext, lame excuse, lame apology, tub to a whale, false plea, sour grapes,
makeshift,
shift, white lie, special pleading, soft sawder
V. pretend,
plead,
allege, shelter oneself under the plea of,
excuse, lend a color to, furnish a handle, make a pretext of, make a handle of, use as a plea, take one's stand upon, make capital out of, pretend
Adv. ostensibly, under color, under the plea, under the pretense of, under the guise of, 3, objects of volition
