{
    "term": "nonsense",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "ideas, statements or beliefs that you think are silly or not true",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Reports that he has resigned are nonsense."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You're **talking nonsense**!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘I won't go.’ ‘Nonsense! You must go!’"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**It's nonsense to** say they don't care."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The idea is an economic nonsense."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Ministers have dismissed the rumours of a bribery scandal as nonsense."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Most of his theories are arrant nonsense."
                },
                {
                    "text": "People are talking a lot of nonsense about the singer's private life."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What's all this nonsense about you giving up your job?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "You don't believe that superstitious nonsense, do you?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘I heard he's resigning.’ ‘That's nonsense.’"
                },
                {
                    "text": "How can you believe such nonsense?"
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "rubbish (3)",
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["absolute", "arrant", "complete"],
                "verb + nonsense": ["spout", "talk", "put up with"],
                "preposition": ["nonsense about"],
                "phrases": [
                    "a load of nonsense",
                    "a lot of nonsense",
                    "make a nonsense of something"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "spoken or written words that have no meaning or make no sense",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a book of children’s nonsense poems"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Most of the translation he did for me was complete nonsense."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The whole article seemed like complete nonsense to me."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["absolute", "arrant", "complete"],
                "verb + nonsense": ["spout", "talk", "put up with"],
                "preposition": ["nonsense about"],
                "phrases": [
                    "a load of nonsense",
                    "a lot of nonsense",
                    "make a nonsense of something"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "silly or unacceptable behaviour",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The new teacher won't stand for any nonsense."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I can't wait for this nonsense to end so that we can all be friends again."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm not going to stand any more of this nonsense."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Just stop this nonsense of refusing to talk to anybody."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["absolute", "arrant", "complete"],
                "verb + nonsense": ["spout", "talk", "put up with"],
                "preposition": ["nonsense about"],
                "phrases": [
                    "a load of nonsense",
                    "a lot of nonsense",
                    "make a nonsense of something"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to reduce the value of something by a lot; to make something seem silly",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "If people can bribe police officers, it makes a complete nonsense of the legal system."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The unemployment figures make nonsense of talk of an economic recovery."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This decision makes absolute nonsense of all our hard work."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to say that something is stupid or not true",
            "labels": "(old-fashioned, informal)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈnɒnsns/",
                "audio": "no/nonsense/nonsense__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈnɑːnsens//ˈnɑːnsns/",
                "audio": "no/nonsense/nonsense__us_1_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": null
}