Adjective: nonsense
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more nonsense |
| Superlative | most nonsense |
Sample Sentences
Adjectives inflected like nonsense
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *né
3. Proto-Germanic *ne
4. Proto-Indo-European *ís?
5. Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos
6. Proto-Germanic *ainaz
7. Proto-Germanic *nainaz
8. Proto-West Germanic *nain
9. Old English nān
10. Middle English non
11. ▲
12. Old English nān
13. Old English nān-
14. Middle English non-
15. English non-
16. Proto-Indo-European *sent-der.
17. Proto-Italic *sentiō
18. Latin sentiō
19. Proto-Indo-European *-tus
20. Proto-Italic *-tus
21. Latin -tus
22. Latin sēnsusbor.
23. Proto-Germanic *sinnaz
24. Frankish *sinnbor.
25. Vulgar Latin *sennus
26. Old French sensbor.
27. Middle English sense
28. English sense
29. English nonsense
30. From non- (“no, none, lack of”) + sense, from c. 1610. Compare the semantically similar West Frisian ûnsin (“nonsense”), Dutch onzin (“nonsense”), German Unsinn (“nonsense”), English unsense (“nonsense”).