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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Lacking intelligible meaning.
  • adjective Foolish; absurd.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of the nature of nonsense; having no sense; unmeaning; absurd; foolish.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Without sense; unmeaning; absurd; foolish; irrational; preposterous.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Without sense; unmeaning; absurd; foolish; irrational; preposterous.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having no intelligible meaning
  • adjective incongruous;inviting ridicule

Etymologies

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From nonsense +‎ -ical.

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