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general::
noun ADJ. absolute, arrant, complete, pure, total, utter Most of his theories are arrant nonsense. | superstitious You don't believe that superstitious nonsense, do you? VERB + NONSENSE talk Don't talk nonsense! | put up with, stand I'm not going to stand any more of this nonsense. | stop Just stop this nonsense of refusing to talk to anybody. | believe PREP. ~ about What's all this nonsense about you giving up your job? PHRASES a load/lot of nonsense People are talking a lot of nonsense about him being the new Michael Jordan. | make (a) nonsense of sth This decision makes absolute nonsense of all our hard work.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
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general::
nonsense
adjectives
complete/total nonsense
• Most of what has been written on this subject is complete nonsense.
utter/absolute nonsense
(= complete nonsense )
• He said that the charges against him were absolute nonsense.
verbs
talk nonsense
• That's not true - he's talking nonsense!
believe this/that nonsense
• Don’t tell me you believe all this nonsense about ghosts!
phrases
that's nonsense
(= used to emphasize that something is not true )
• That’s nonsense. I never said that at all.
a load of nonsense
informal (= things that are completely untrue )
• What she told you was a load of nonsense. Mark doesn’t drink at all.
a lot of nonsense
(= things that are completely untrue )
• ‘Don’t fill her head with a lot of nonsense,’ said her mother.
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