English-Dutch translations for nonsense

• nonsens
  Dat is natuurlijk volslagen nonsens. That is, of course, absolute nonsense.
  schriftelijk. - (FR) Europese politieke partijen zijn nonsens. Political parties at European level are a nonsense.
  Dit was natuurlijk nonsens, en er bestaan tal van voorbeelden van dergelijke nonsens. This was, of course, nonsense, and there are many examples of this nonsense.
• onzin
  Wat een onzin, echt totale onzin! What nonsense, complete and utter nonsense!
  Dat is absolute, faliekante onzin. That is total and utter nonsense.
  Exportrestituties zijn uit economisch oogpunt onzin. Export refund are economic nonsense.
• flauwekul
  Laten we ophouden met deze flauwekul! Let us put an end to this nonsense!
  Ja, Hanau: hetzelfde geldt voor die flauwekul met Hanau, ook dat moeten we tegen China zeggen. Then there is Hanau: we have to be straight with China about this Hanau nonsense.
  Dit is flauwekul en in combinatie met Amerikaanse standpunten over de noodzaak van onthouding voor het huwelijk ronduit gevaarlijk. This nonsense, alongside US views on the need for abstention before marriage, is incorrect and quite simply dangerous.
• gekheid
• kletskoek
• lariekoek
  De vrees van de bonden voor sociale dumping vind ik lariekoek. I think that the unions' fear about social dumping is nonsense.
  Het is volstrekte lariekoek om visumvrijstelling te verlenen omdat ze anders in hun zielige landjes opgesloten zitten, volstrekte onzin! It is absolute nonsense to waive their visa requirement on the grounds that they would otherwise be trapped in their pitiful little countries.
• malheid
• onding
• quatsch
• zever

Definition of nonsense

• 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
• A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by
• To make nonsense of
• To attempt to dismiss as nonsense; to ignore or belittle the significance of something; to render unimportant or puny
• To joke around, to waste time
• Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon (not coding for an amino-acid

Examples

• After my father had a stroke, every time he tried to talk, it sounded like nonsense
• He says that I stole his computer, but thats just nonsense

Related words

• no-nonsense
• nonsenses
• nonsense mutation
• nonsense word
• nonsense codon
• nonsense triplet
• stuff and nonsense
• talk nonsense
• sheer nonsense