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- What does make no sense mean?
- Does this make sense meaning?
- What is another word for understandable?
- What do you call someone who is understanding?
- What do you call a very understanding person?
- What does ascertain mean?
- What do you call a person who forgives easily?
- What do you call someone who is accepting?
- What is a stubborn person called?
- What is a word for being open-minded?
- Is open-minded a tone?
- When a person is open?
- Is open-minded a personality trait?
- Who is open minded person?
- What is a free minded person?
- What is it called when someone thinks everyone is against them?
- Is suspicion a mental disorder?
- How do you respond to someone who is paranoid?
- What triggers paranoia?
What is another word for not making sense?
What does make no sense mean?
Up vote 1. If something makes no sense it means it is illogical, nonsensical, and unreasoned. This phrase can be used in situations where the proposal or affirmation appears to be absurd, or even preposterous. We can make no sense of it.
| ridiculous | irrational |
|---|---|
| illogical | unreasonable |
| unsound | injudicious |
| senseless | unthinking |
| unwise | brainless |
Does this make sense meaning?
1 : to have a clear meaning : to be easy to understand We read the recommendations and thought they made (perfect) sense. You’re not making much sense (to me). 2 : to be reasonable It makes sense to leave early to avoid traffic.
What is another word for understandable?
Understandable Synonyms – WordHippo Thesaurus….What is another word for understandable?
| comprehensible | coherent |
|---|---|
| legible | perspicuous |
| scrutable | transparent |
| glanceable | imaginable |
| knowable | logical |
What do you call someone who is understanding?
Empathetic Someone who has the ability to understand and share someone’s feelings and emotions. Sympathetic Someone who is concerned about somebody and cares about them and what they feel.
What do you call a very understanding person?
perceptive Add to list Share. If someone calls you perceptive, they mean you are good at understanding things or figuring things out. Perceptive people are insightful, intelligent, and able to see what others cannot. Perceive means “to see”; so, perceptive is a word to describe someone who is good at seeing.
What does ascertain mean?
transitive verb. 1 : to find out or learn with certainty ascertain the truth trying to ascertain the cause of the fire information that can be easily ascertained on the Internet. 2 archaic : to make certain, exact, or precise.
What do you call a person who forgives easily?
magnanimous. adjective. formal willing to forgive people, or willing to be kind and fair.
What do you call someone who is accepting?
liberality. noun. formal the attitude of someone who is willing to accept different opinions and different ways of behaving.
What is a stubborn person called?
When a person is inexorable, they’re stubborn. An inexorable person is hard-headed and cannot be convinced to change their mind, no matter what.
What is a word for being open-minded?
In this page you can discover 32 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for open-minded, like: fair-minded, receptive, flexible, just, broad-minded, unbiased, tolerant, fair, amenable, accept and responsive.
Is open-minded a tone?
As different events happen, the tone shifts….The Ultimate List of Tone Words.
| Tone Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Tolerant | open-minded; charitable; patient; sympathetic; lenient |
| Tragic | disastrous; calamitous |
When a person is open?
Being an “open person” can mean many different things, all of them positive. It’s a term with no set definition, but it generally includes some combination of friendliness, approachability, honesty, open-mindedness, tolerance, and personal authenticity.
Is open-minded a personality trait?
The personality trait that best reflects the lay concept of open-mindedness is called “openness to experience,” or simply “openness.” Open people tend to be intellectually curious, creative and imaginative.
Who is open minded person?
Being open-minded means having the ability to consider other perspectives and trying to be empathetic to other people, even when you disagree with them.
What is a free minded person?
: having a mind free from care.
What is it called when someone thinks everyone is against them?
Paranoid personality disorder (PPD) is one of a group of conditions called eccentric personality disorders. People with PPD suffer from paranoia, an unrelenting mistrust and suspicion of others, even when there is no reason to be suspicious. Overview. Symptoms and Causes.
Is suspicion a mental disorder?
Paranoid personality disorder (PPD) is a challenging mental health condition defined by mistrust and suspicion so intense that it interferes with thought patterns, behavior, and daily functioning.
How do you respond to someone who is paranoid?
Schizophrenia: Helping Someone Who Is Paranoid
- Don’t argue.
- Use simple directions, if needed.
- Give the person enough personal space so that he or she does not feel trapped or surrounded.
- Call for help if you think anyone is in danger.
- Move the person away from the cause of the fear or from noise and activity, if possible.
- Focus the person on what is real.
What triggers paranoia?
Life experiences. You are more likely to experience paranoid thoughts when you are in vulnerable, isolated or stressful situations that could lead to you feeling negative about yourself. If you are bullied at work, or your home is burgled, this could give you suspicious thoughts which could develop into paranoia.
Is there a word for a thing that doesn’t make sense, a shiny alternative to ‘nonsense’?
I want to use it like: <-new-word>> politics, meaning stupid, nonsense politics.
Update: by ‘shiny’ I mean’t non-vulgar, non-tongue-twister word.
asked Aug 27, 2016 at 12:02
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Depending on what you want with shiny, rare words with funny pronunciation and euphemisms could be used. With a rare word, the listener might feel less verbal violence than with a mere «crap». I suggest hokum:
a euphemism for nonsense (from Wiki disambiguation); Something apparently impressive or legitimate but actually untrue or insincere; nonsense (urban dictionary)
or folderal (alternative writings: folderol, falderal), which has an ornamental property (shiny enough?):
nonsense, ornamental objects of no great value (Merriam Webster), from a nonsensical line in old ballads
Finally, in France, abracadabrantesque was almost forgotten, and was
resurrected during a political interview.
The word comes from authors and poets Mario Proth, Théophile Gautier and Arthur Rimbaud. It looks like poetry, and it is, so maybe more acceptable. It refers to magic (same root as abracadabra) turned into an adjective and superlative. This word was almost forgotten for a century. Then, a former president used it in an interview (Chirac ou l’histoire abracadabrantesque). The journalist wanted to bring a question on a posthumous testimony about his alleged frauds. He used this word to characterize the whole story as «utter nonsense», suggesting it was made-up. The forgotten word has now come to use for the pleasure of many, especially journalists.
Here are some uses for the words above, mainly webpage titles. Opinions are not mine:
- Sanders, Trump and the Politics of Hokum
- Political folderol
- Famous Presidential Lies, Exaggerations, and Folderol
- Scientific Hokum and Its Destructive Political Agenda
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answered Aug 27, 2016 at 12:24
Laurent DuvalLaurent Duval
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There’s a word for that I’ve recently learned: malarkey (Merriam-Webster):
: foolish words or ideas : insincere or foolish talk
[M-W example:] He thinks everything politicians say is just a bunch of malarkey.
It’s an uncommonly used word: Google Books Ngram shows it used at 0.5% the frequency of nonsense. I you want something stronger and newer you can go for bullarkey. You don’t find it in conventional dictionaries, so we need the Urban dictionary here:
Total and complete nonsense; full of contradictions and completely ludicrous
“After the debate, the crowd felt the last politican’s statement was complete bullarky and he had no right to run.”
answered Aug 27, 2016 at 14:15
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«Nonsensical» would be the exact word you’re describing, and I can’t wrap my head around why you want to use something else instead.
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/nonsensical
adjective
(of words or language) having little or no meaning; making little or no sense:
A baby’s babbling is appealingly nonsensical.(of behavior, conduct, actions, etc.) foolish, senseless, fatuous, or absurd:
His nonsensical behavior was unusual for such a serious person.
answered Aug 27, 2016 at 17:04
How about absurdity or farce politics?
From Merriam-Webster:
absurdity: the quality or state of being absurd
absurd: extremely silly, foolish, or unreasonable : completely ridiculous
farce: something that is so bad that it is seen as ridiculous
The OP’s example:
absurdity politics, meaning stupid, nonsense politics
farce politics, meaning stupid, nonsense politics.
Absurdity politics has the nice feature that it parallels and conjures identity politics.
answered Aug 28, 2016 at 0:52
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In terms of shiny words, I bet you could get away with hoopla or ballyhoo (which mean roughly the same thing. Look at froufrou or gobbledygook, too. Those are bright and nice. I suspect froufrou might be the one you want, due to the «ostentatious decoration» meaning. It’s going to depend on what you’re describing as nonsense, really.
answered Aug 27, 2016 at 12:25
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Jibberish politics?
unintelligible or meaningless speech or writing; nonsense.
answered Aug 27, 2016 at 14:19
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Bullshit — M-W
noun, usually vulgar nonsense; especially: foolish insolent talk
«Don’t bullshit me. Tell me the truth!»
«Stop bullshitting and tell me the truth.»
answered Aug 28, 2016 at 0:46
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pointless (oxforddictionaries.com)
ADJECTIVE
Having little or no sense, use, or purpose:
speculating like this is a pointless exercise
[WITH INFINITIVE]: it’s pointless to plan too far ahead
More example sentences:
It beggars belief how anyone with any sense could buy this pointless
drivel.Whichever way you cut it, it’s still too often a pointless exercise
for anyone writing for the consumer press.It’s a pointless exercise in negativity by both the Labor Party and
the Democrats.
answered Aug 27, 2016 at 14:33
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How about balderdash?
- senseless, stupid, or exaggerated talk or writing; nonsense. [Dictionary.com]
A description determined to be so fitting for deception and absurdity that a common board game took its name.
answered Aug 28, 2016 at 6:23
An answer that checks all your criteria, both including nonsense in the definition, and specifically alluding to politics, are the pair of
bunk (the 2nd word listing)
noun, Informal.
1. Humbug; nonsense.
[Dictionary.com]
or its original form, bunkum or buncombe:
noun
1. Insincere speechmaking by a politician intended merely to please local constituents.
2. Insincere talk; claptrap; humbug.
a word actually derived from the political grandstanding by a particular politician in the 1800s.
answered Aug 28, 2016 at 6:37
I don’t know if preposterous qualifies as a shiny word as it’s not new, but I like the alliterative sound of ‘preposterous politics’
preposterous
formal very silly or stupid:
Cambridge Dictionary
answered Aug 27, 2016 at 19:23
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I don’t understand exactly what you’re looking for
(we’re still waiting for an explanation of “shiny”), but:
in 1980, then-presidential candidate George H. W. Bush
referred to Ronald Reagan’s economic (a.k.a. “Reaganomics”)
as “voodoo economics”.
[Collins Dictionary] defines voodoo as
noun:
a religious cult involving witchcraft
and communication by trance with ancestors and animistic deities,
common in Haiti and other Caribbean islandsadjective:
relating to or associated with voodoo
so Bush was saying that Reaganomics was related to witchcraft,
and not sound theories and practices.
answered Aug 28, 2016 at 0:03
Garbage has multiple definitions that fit well (from Dictionary.com):
- Anything that is contemptibly worthless, inferior, or vile:
[There’s nothing but garbage on TV tonight.]- Worthless talk; lies; foolishness.
- Slang. Any unnecessary item added to something else, as for appearance only; garnish:
answered Aug 28, 2016 at 6:27
Specious has the meaning of «superficially pleasing» (i.e., shiny) but actually false:
1.
apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible:
specious arguments.2.
pleasing to the eye but deceptive.
answered Aug 28, 2016 at 20:58
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If the thing that you are describing attempts to appear to make sense by following the form of something that actually does make sense, then the word is «pseudo». This is usually used as a prefix or a hyphenated prefix, though, rather than a separated word. Examples: pseudo-science, pseudo-intellectual, pseudo-post-modernism. Okay, I made up the last one.
I’m afraid, though, that most people would consider «pseudo-political» to be redundant. Kind of like «pseudo-economics», since some people assert that economics itself is pseudo-science.
answered Aug 27, 2016 at 19:43
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На основании Вашего запроса эти примеры могут содержать грубую лексику.
На основании Вашего запроса эти примеры могут содержать разговорную лексику.
You’re not making sense anymore.
So you lied in order to get fired — still not making sense.
Так вы солгали, чтобы вас уволили… в этом по-прежнему нет смысла.
Anna, you’re not making sense.
You think I’m not making sense… but I am.
One by one all these things became free, so it ended up not making sense for us to own much.
Одни за другим все эти вещи становились бесплатными, поэтому в конечном итоге нам не было смысла владеть большим.
Ask yourself why it is not making sense.
I had to confess that his words were not making sense to me.
Я хотел признаться, что его слова не имеют для меня смысла.
Alan was disoriented and his words were not making sense.
Алан был дезориентирован, и его слова не имели смысла.
This is not making sense to me, so I ask again.
I am trying to listen to you, But you’re not making sense.
So $500 is just not making sense for us, and we also feel that this is working against the signal provider.
Таким образом, $ 500 просто не имеет для нас смысла, и мы также чувствуем, что это работает против провайдера сигналов.
No, it’s not making sense!
Keyword stuffing is the practice of packing relevant keywords into your website content even if it’s not making sense.
Заполнение ключевыми словами — это искусство упаковки ключевых слов на ваш сайт, даже если оно больше не имеет смысла.
I’m 20 years old and not making sense of it.
But what’s not making sense is WHERE it happened.
Но то, что не имеет смысла, это ГДЕ это произошло.
No, wait, I’m not making sense.
The one difference that I definitely noticed is that Mai’s story in the 2002 version was greatly condensed to the point of not making sense, while it’s quite well-paced and understandable in the 2006 version.
Единственная разница, что я определенно заметил, что история МАИ в 2002 версия сильно сокращенная до точки не имеет смысла, в то время как это очень хорошо развивающийся и понятно в версии 2006.
I think I am just talking to myself and not making sense.
But this is starting to make sense now! No, it’s not making sense!
Но сейчас в этом появился смысл! — Нет в этом никакого смысла!
He’s confused, he’s not making sense, is he, Tom?
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The phrase “makes no sense” gets used more than you might realize, especially if you have a hard time understanding why someone said something. We’re looking at why people use the phrase, as well as what it means and how you might be able to use it yourself.
What Is The Meaning Of “Makes No Sense”?
The meaning of “makes no sense” is that someone cannot construct a rational argument for a particular situation to be true. It’s used in response to something someone else has said when someone either can’t understand what they mean or doesn’t understand why they said it.
According to the Cambridge English Dictionary, “make sense” means “to be clear and easy to understand.” So, if something makes no sense, then it is not clear or easy to understand.
Examples Of When It Is Appropriate To Answer “That Makes No Sense” (All Variations)
There are plenty of times where it’s appropriate to answer “that makes no sense” to somebody. In all of these cases, it might not be the most polite option, but you can say it if you don’t understand what they’re talking about or can’t figure out why they said what they did.
- We should go out tonight.
- That makes no sense. All the clubs are closed.
- I’m sorry but can you, just wait, for like, a minute, but don’t, if you can.
- You don’t make sense! Use your words!
- I know that “tack” is French for “thank you.”
- That does not make any sense. “Merci” is French for “thank you.”
- I love Star Wars so much!
- That makes no sense. Star Trek is so much better; you’re even wearing the t-shirt!
- I’m having a great day!
- You make no sense; you hate rollercoasters and threw up twice already!
- Does everyone understand this math assignment?
- Sorry, miss, but this doesn’t make sense to me!
- Your essay looks strange!
- My essay makes no sense. Can you proofread it for me?
- Babble babble babble
- You’re making no sense. Slow down and take a breath, then tell me what’s wrong.
- Can we go shopping tomorrow?
- That makes no sense. The shops are all closed!
We can use “that makes no sense” as an answer when we want to show someone that we don’t understand why they said what they did. It’s a good way to tell them that they’re either speaking nonsense or they’ve presented us with a difficult argument that we aren’t able to understand.
What Is The Difference Between “This Makes No Sense” And “This Doesn’t Make Sense”?
The main difference between “this makes no sense” and “this doesn’t make sense” is the wording. They can be used interchangeably, though “this doesn’t make sense” is the more common choice of the two.
If you look at the graph, you can see how much more popular the phrase “does not make sense” is compared to “makes no sense.” These findings were taken from books written in English. Most authors opt for “does not make sense” or some variation of it when writing.
There is one rather substantial difference between the two that you might need to know to help you remember which one is used more.
“Makes no sense” uses the word “no,” showing that we ultimately do not understand the situation. “No,” tells the other person we’re talking to that there’s no way we can come up with a valid argument for whatever they’re saying. It’s often considered an impossible situation – which rarely comes up.
“Doesn’t make sense” implies that we’re pointing out an inconsistency or struggling to come up with an argument for it. However, that doesn’t mean we’ve seen it as impossible and will keep working to try and figure out the meaning of what’s been said.
It’s that difference between the words that might make “doesn’t make sense” the more popular choice over “makes no sense.”
Is It Rude To Say “That Doesn’t Make Sense”?
The context that requires you to say “that doesn’t make sense” is what decides whether or not you’re polite. If someone is trying to explain a concept to you and you’re not quite understanding it, then saying “that doesn’t make sense” might be seen as a way for you to ask for help. However, it is considered rude if you use this rather than simply asking for help.
If you use it in a situation where someone is talking nonsense, and you’re trying to get them out of it, then it might encourage them to take a minute to gather their thoughts. However, there are still nicer ways to say that they need to slow down, and “that doesn’t make sense” is rude in this case too.
The only time “that doesn’t make sense” isn’t rude is when you immediately follow it with constructive criticism. If someone says something you disagree with and you use the phrase, you can tell them directly why it makes no sense to you and help them out.
Synonyms For “That Does Not Make Sense”
There are always better ways to say “that does not make sense,” which are considered more polite and constructive. We recommend you use one of these no matter what situation you might find yourself in.
- Could you clarify
If you’re struggling to understand a concept, this simple question might work well and is also really polite.
- I don’t understand
This is a more polite way of saying that you do not understand what somebody says to you. It will encourage them to change their wording or explain something in a better way to help you.
- Don’t be silly!
This one is more colloquial and should only be used in friendly situations when someone isn’t making sense with their suggestions.
Is The Correct Spelling Doesn’t Make Sense Or Sence?
When we’re writing “doesn’t make sense,” it’s important to get the spelling correct. Hopefully, you’ve been paying attention to how we’ve been spelling the word throughout this article, and you don’t even need to worry about this section.
“Doesn’t make sense” is the correct spelling. “Sence” is an incorrect spelling and is not a word.
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