| Main Entry: | silliness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | folly |
Synonyms: |
absurdity, craziness, foolishness, goofiness, inaneness, inanity, ineptitude, puerility, senselessness, stupidity |
Antonyms: |
sensibleness |
| 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: | folly |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense, ridiculous idea |
Synonyms: |
absurdity, craziness, daftness, dottiness, dumb thing to do, dumb trick, fatuity, foolishness, idiocy, imbecility, impracticality, imprudence, inadvisability, inanity, indiscretion, irrationality, lunacy, madness, obliquity, preposterousness, rashness, recklessness, senselessness, silliness, stupidity, triviality, unsoundness, vice, witlessness |
Antonyms: |
judgment, knowledge, seriousness, understanding, wisdom |
| Main Entry: | foolishness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | idiocy, nonsense |
Synonyms: |
absurdity, absurdness, bunk, carrying-on, claptrap, craziness, dumb trick, folly, fool trick, foolery, horse feathers, impracticality, imprudence, inanity, indiscretion, insanity, insensibility, irrationality, irresponsibility, ludicrousness, lunacy, mistake, poppycock, preposterousness, rubbish*, senselessness, silliness, stupidity, tommyrot, twaddle, unreasonableness, unwiseness, weakness, witlessness |
Antonyms: |
care, carefulness, caution, circumspection, prudence, sense, seriousness, thoughtfulness, wiseness |
| 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: | lunacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | craziness, madness |
Synonyms: |
aberration, absurdity, alienation, asininity, dementia, derangement, distraction, fatuity, folly, foolhardiness, foolishness, idiocy, imbalance, imbecility, inanity, ineptitude, insanity, mania, psychopathy, psychosis, senselessness, silliness, stupidity |
Antonyms: |
saneness |
| Main Entry: | malarky |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
Synonyms: |
absurdity, babble, balderdash, baloney, bombast, bull*, bunk, drivel, foolishness, gibberish, giddiness, hogwash, hot air, jive, poppycock, prattle, rubbish, silliness, trash* |
| Main Entry: | monkey business |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shenanigans |
Synonyms: |
absurdity, absurdness, antics, buffoonery, carrying-on, clowning around, craziness, disobedience, foolery, foolishness, hanky-panky, high jinks, hokey-pokey, horse feathers, horseplay, inanity, insanity, irresponsibility, ludicrousness, lunacy, misbehavior, mischief, mischief-making, monkeyshine, nonsense, poppycock, prank, silliness, stupidity, tommyrot |
| Main Entry: | nonsense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | craziness, ridiculousness |
Synonyms: |
absurdity, babble, balderdash, baloney, bananas, bombast, bull*, bunk, claptrap, drivel, fatuity, flightiness, folly, foolishness, fun, gibberish, giddiness, hogwash, hooey, hot air, imprudence, inanity, irrationality, jazz, jest, jive, joke, ludicrousness, madness, mumbo jumbo, palaver, poppycock, prattle, pretense, ranting, rashness, rot, rubbish, scrawl, scribble, senselessness, silliness, soft soap, stupidity, thoughtlessness, trash*, tripe |
Antonyms: |
clarity, common sense, fact, intelligibility, sense, truth, understanding |
| Main Entry: | piffle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
Synonyms: |
balderdash, baloney, bull*, bunk, drivel, empty talk, foolishness, futile talk, gibberish, hogwash, hooey, hot air, jive, palaver, poppycock, prattle, rubbish, silliness, trash*, useless words |