nonsensic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Rare form of nonsensical.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "Fwyynghns (pronounced “finnies”) turned out to be dippy little characters cursed with a nonsensic mincemeat of dialogue scooped from nursery rhymes and princess myths."
- "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."
- "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, […]"
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Germanic *ne Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-Germanic *nainaz Proto-West Germanic *nain Old English nān Middle English non ▲ Old English nān Old English nān- Middle English non- English non- Proto-Indo-European *sent-der. Proto-Italic *sentiō Latin sentiō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin sēnsusbor. Proto-Germanic *sinnaz Frankish *sinnbor. Vulgar Latin *sennus Old French sensbor. Middle English sense English sense English nonsense Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English nonsensic From nonsense + -ic.
Inflected Forms
more nonsensic (comparative)
most nonsensic (superlative)