2. unintelligibility, unintelligibleness, incomprehensibility, incomprehensibleness; indistinctness, confusion, cobwebs, Greek, Chiefly Southern U.S. Choctaw; gibberish, babble, babbling, babblement, Fr. bavardage; twaddle, twaddling, Both Brit, twattle, twattling; blather, blathering, drivel, driveling, drool, drooling; jargon, hocus-pocus, mumbo-jumbo, abracadabra, open-sesame, fiddle-de-dee; moonshine, gob-bledegook, humbug, foam, froth, bunkum or buncombe, SI. bunk, U.S. SI. blah; flummery, Inf. hokum, SI. applesauce, SI. eyewash; rubbish, SI. tripe, refuse, Dial, culch, chaff, trash, Inf. truck, trumpery; tommyrot, Inf. rot, SI. garbage, SI. crap, SI. crock, SI. bull; balderdash, SI. horsefeathers, hogwash, stuff, stuff and nonsense, Inf. bosh, Brit. Inf. gammon, Brit. SI. tosh; fudge, foolishness, folly, rigmarole or rigamarole, amphigory; footle, Inf malarkey, SI. bushwa, SI. baloney, SI. bilge, or bilge water, SI. meshugaas, Scot. and North Eng. haver; poppycock, Inf. fiddle-faddle, Inf piffle, Inf. hooey, Inf kibosh, Inf flapdoodle.
3. claptrap, rodomontade, fustian, bombast, rant, SI. hot air, idle talk, Inf. gab, SI. gas; palaver, palavering, palaverment; jabber, jabbering, Jabberwocky, prate, prating; patter, pattering, gabble, gabbling; clack, clacking, clatter, clattering, rattling, SI. running off or on at the mouth; chatter, chattering, prattle, prattling, chippering, cackle, cackling; chit-chat, chitter-chatter, small talk, Anglo-Indian, bukh.
4. antic, antics, caper, Inf. shenanigans, SI. monkey-shines, SI. monkeybusiness; prankishness, mischief, Si hanky-panky, Scot. and North Eng. daffing; prank, trick, practical joke; fooling, foolery, tomfoolery, horseplay; clowning, clownery, clownishness; buffoonery, buffoonism, buffoonishness, harlequinade; joking, jesting^ jocosity, jocoseness, jocularity, waggishness, waggery, drollery; levity, frivolity, facetiousness; silliness, inanity, childishness, puerility, juvenility, Inf. sappiness.
5. triviality, nugacity, frivolity, futility; stuff, trifle, trinket, gimcrackery, bauble, gewgaw, frippery. nonsensical, adj. 1. senseless, meaningless, amphi-goric, skimble-scamble, incomprehensible, unintelligible; paradoxical, contradictory, self-contradictory, incongruous.
2. absurd, ludicrous, ridiculous, preposterous, harebrained; laughable, silly, frivolous, facetious; foolish, Inf. fool, Inf. foolheaded, Inf tomfool, fatuous; stupid, Si dumb, asinine, idiotic, moronic, imbecilic, mad, daft, insane, crazy; All Inf dizzy, cockamamie, poppycockish; All Si screwball, screwy, nutty, wacky, daffy, goofy, kooky, loony, flaky, sappy, cockeyed. nonsentient, adj. 1. unfeeling, insensible, insensitive, insensate, unresponsive; numb, benumbed, dead, deadened; unconscious, uncognizant, unaware, imper-ceptive, nonperceptive; drugged, Si doped, Si doped up, Si doped to the eyeballs, Si out of it, Si spaced, Si spaced out.
2. apathetic, indifferent, unconcerned, uncaring; cool, cold, frigid, frosty, icy; callous, hard, hardened, inured, indurate, thickskinned, pachydermatous. nonspiritual, adj. 1. corporeal, corporal, bodily, fleshly, incarnate, somatic, physical, material; palpable, tangible, sensible, touchable, ponderable, appreciable.
2. wordly, unspiritual, mundane, temporal, earthy, earthly, external; secular, lay, worldly-minded, earthly-minded, carnal, materialistic.
3. irreligious, unbelieving, faithless; irreverent, impious, blasphemous, sacrilegious. nonstop, adj. 1. ceaseless, unceasing, incessant, constant, uninterrupted, continual, continuous, unbroken, ongoing; unremitting, unintermitting, relentless, persistent; recurrent, repeated, frequent, habitual, regular; around-the-clock, day-in and day-out, dawn-to-dusk, at every turn.