nonsensic

comparative more nonsensic · superlative most nonsensic

1. rareRare form of nonsensical.

   Fwyynghns (pronounced “finnies”) turned out to be dippy little characters cursed with a nonsensic mincemeat of dialogue scooped from nursery rhymes and princess myths.

   1980, High Fidelity, page 30

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   She saw only that he was old, and worn as he had been on the last day of the trial, bludgeoned to half-consciousness by the nonsensic clamour; that his grandeur had remained; he stood so straight, so large in that old coat of his, the one he had worn to travel here from Paris.

   1936, R. C. Hutchinson, Shining Scabbard, Farrar & Rinehart, page 242

   What does that teacher do in the classroom? If they group low ability and they teach low ability, then we're going to get low ability product. I know it sounds terribly nonsensic, and I hope there is not too much disparity between psychology and common sense.

   1973, Harvard Center for Law and Education, Classification Materials, page 364

   On first thought the proposition of changing the number of points in data space might seem to be nonsensic, since results of multivariate analyses will most likely be different and difficult to compare.

   1983, Acta Botanica Hungarica, volume 30, page 90

   If truly ongoing spontaneous neuropathic pain emanates from regenerated sprouts in surviving axons, then apparently nonsensic associations will be found between (a) structurally devastated nerve distally, […]

   1993, New Trends in Referred Pain and Hyperalgesia, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 322

   Cosmological, speculative meaning without the appended avenues for achieving it in real life, would at least be extremely frustrating and at worst appear totally nonsensic.

   1989, Erich Kolig, Dreamtime Politics: Religion, World View and Utopian Thought in Australian Aboriginal Society, →ISBN, page 96