cant vs nonsense
nonsense vs cantcant and nonsense both are nouns.
cant is not an adjective while nonsense is an adjective.
cant is a verb but nonsense is not a verb.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cant | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| nonsense | Yes | Yes | No | No |
As nouns,
nonsense is a hypernym of
cant; that is, nonsense is a
word with a broader meaning than cant:
- cant: stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition
- nonsense: a message that seems to convey no meaning
| cant (noun) | nonsense (noun) |
|---|---|
| two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees | ornamental objects of no great value |
| a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) | a message that seems to convey no meaning |
| stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition | |
| insincere talk about religion or morals | |
| a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force |
| cant (adjective) | nonsense (adjective) |
|---|---|
| having no intelligible meaning |
| cant (verb) | nonsense (verb) |
|---|---|
| heel over |
Words related to "cant"
- 'hood
- Boche
- Chinaman
- Guinea
- Hun
- Injun
- Jap
- Jerry
- Kraut
- Krauthead
- Mickey Finn
- Nip
- Redskin
- airhead
- applesauce
- argot
- arse
- arsehole
- ass
- asshole
- bad egg
- baloney
- bank
- bay window
- besotted
- bevel
- big bucks
- big money
- bilgewater
- bitch
- bite
- blind drunk
- blotto
- blowjob
- boffin
- boloney
- bolshy
- bosh
- bun-fight
- bundle
- bunfight
- bunghole
- bunk
- bunk off
- burnup
- butch
- buy it
- buzzword
- caff
- camber
- can-do
- cant over
- cert
- chamfer
- chink
- chuck
- clean
- cock
- cock sucking
- cockeyed
- codswallop
- corker
- corporation
- crocked
- dago
- deck
- dekko
- dibs
- dike
- ditch
- dreck
- drool
- drop-dead
- dyke
- edge
- feel
- folderol
- freaky
- fuck
- fucking
- fuddled
- gat
- ginzo
- give
- good egg
- greaseball
- grotty
- guvnor
- hand job
- heebie-jeebies
- heist
- hokum
- honkey
- honkie
- honky
- hood
- hooey
- hoof
- humbug
- hymie
- incline
- jacking off
- jargon
- jerking off
- jitters
- juice
- key
- kike
- legs
- lingo
- loaded
- meaninglessness
- megabucks
- move
- nick
- niff
- non-standard speech
- nonsense
- nonsensicality
- nookie
- nooky
- nosh-up
- old man
- out-and-outer
- paleface
- patois
- pie-eyed
- piece of ass
- piece of tail
- pile
- pint-size
- pint-sized
- pious platitude
- pip out
- pissed
- pitch
- pixilated
- plastered
- play hooky
- plum
- plumb
- pong
- poor white trash
- poppycock
- pot
- potbelly
- power trip
- red man
- rhyming slang
- rip-off
- rod
- roll in the hay
- rubbish
- runty
- sawed-off
- sawn-off
- schlock
- schlockmeister
- screaming meemies
- screw
- screwing
- shag
- shakedown
- sheeny
- shlock
- shlockmeister
- shtup
- side
- skin flick
- skinful
- slam-bang
- slang
- slant
- slant-eye
- slope
- slopped
- sloshed
- smashed
- soaked
- some
- soup-strainer
- soused
- sozzled
- spic
- spick
- spik
- splay
- square
- square-bashing
- squeeze
- squiffy
- stiff
- straight
- street name
- stroppy
- stuff
- stuff and nonsense
- suit
- swiz
- talk
- talking
- taradiddle
- tarradiddle
- the shits
- the trots
- tight
- tilt
- tommyrot
- toothbrush
- tosh
- trash
- tripe
- tripper
- trumpery
- tummy
- twaddle
- uncool
- vernacular
- wank
- wet
- white trash
- whitey
- wish-wash
- wog
- wop
- yid
Words related to "nonsense"
- absurdity
- absurdness
- amphigory
- balderdash
- baloney
- bilgewater
- boloney
- bosh
- bunk
- buzzword
- cant
- cobblers
- content
- crock
- decoration
- drool
- empty talk
- empty words
- fa la
- fal la
- falderol
- fiddle-faddle
- flummery
- folderal
- frill
- gibber
- gibberish
- gimcrack
- gimcrackery
- hokum
- hooey
- hot air
- humbug
- incoherence
- incoherency
- jabberwocky
- meaningless
- meaninglessness
- message
- mummery
- nonmeaningful
- nonsense verse
- nonsensical
- nonsensicality
- ornament
- ornamentation
- palaver
- piffle
- poppycock
- rhetoric
- ridiculousness
- rigamarole
- rigmarole
- schmegegge
- shmegegge
- stuff
- stuff and nonsense
- subject matter
- substance
- taradiddle
- tarradiddle
- tommyrot
- tosh
- trumpery
- twaddle
- unintelligibility
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