| Main Entry: | absurdity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ridiculous situation or behavior |
Synonyms: |
BS, applesauce, bull*, crap, craziness, farce, flapdoodle, folly, foolishness, hot air, idiocy, illogicality, illogicalness, improbability, inanity, incongruity, insanity, irrationality, jazz, jive, ludicrousness, ridiculousness, senselessness, silliness, stupidity, unreasonableness |
Antonyms: |
logic, reason, reasonableness, sense |
| Main Entry: | distortion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deformity; falsification |
Synonyms: |
BS, baloney, bend, bias, buckle, coloring, contortion, crock, crookedness, exaggeration, intorsion, jazz, jive, lie, line, malconformation, malformation, misinterpretation, misrepresentation, misshape, misstatement, misuse, mutilation, perversion, slant, smoke*, story*, tall story, torture, twist, twistedness, warp |
Antonyms: |
beauty, clarity, perfection |
| Main Entry: | hogwash |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
Synonyms: |
BS, absurdity, balderdash, baloney, bull*, bunk, debris, drivel*, foolishness, hokum, hooey, horsefeathers, poppycock, refuse, ridiculousness, rot, rubbish, trash, twaddle |
Antonyms: |
sense, truth |
| Main Entry: | humbug |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
Synonyms: |
BS, babble, balderdash, baloney, bull*, bunk, drivel, empty talk, gibberish, hogwash, hooey, hot air, poppycock, pretense, rubbish, silliness, trash* |
| Main Entry: | tripe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense, rubbish |
Synonyms: |
BS, balderdash, baloney, bilge, bosh, bull*, bunk, drivel, garbage, gibberish, hogwash, hooey, hot air, poppycock, trash |
| Main Entry: | twaddle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
Synonyms: |
BS, babble, balderdash, baloney, bull, bunk, chatter, crap, drivel, foolishness, gibberish, hogwash, hooey, hot air, idle talk, jive, mumbo jumbo, palaver, poppycock, prattle, rubbish, silliness, stultiloquence, trash*, tripe |
| Main Entry: | bachelor's degree |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | undergraduate degree |
Synonyms: |
BA, BS, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, baccalaureate |
| Concept: | [Irregularity of form.] Distortion. |
| Category: | 1. General form |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
distortion, detortion, contortion; twist, crookedness (obliquity); grimace; deformity; malformation, malconformation; harelip; monstrosity, misproportion, want of symmetry, anamorphosis; ugliness; talipes; teratology.
-verbs
distort, contort, twist, warp, wrest, writhe, make faces, deform, misshape.
-adjectives
distorted; out of shape, irregular, unsymmetric, awry, wry, askew, crooked; not true, not straight; on one side, crump, deformed; harelipped; misshapen, misbegotten; misproportioned, ill proportioned; ill-made; grotesque, crooked as a ram's horn; camel backed, hump backed, hunch backed, bunch backed, crook backed; bandy; bandy legged, bow legged; bow kneed, knock kneed; splay footed, club footed; round shouldered; snub nosed; curtailed of one's fair proportions; stumpy (short); gaunt (thin); bloated; scalene; simous; taliped, talipedic.
-adverbs
all manner of ways.
-phrases
crooked as a Virginia fence [U.S.].
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Antonyms: |
symmetry |
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