A claim, hypothesis, or other belief that is contrary to the facts.
A conditional statement in which the conditional clause is false.
A hypothetical state of the world, used to assess the impact of an action.
Contrary to known or agreed facts; untrue.
Of or in comparison to a hypothetical state of the world.
An untrue statement.
A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by Edward Lear.
That which is silly, illogical and lacks any meaning, reason or value; that which does not make sense.
Something foolish.
Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning.
A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.
Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon (not coding for an amino-acid).
Nonsensical.
To make nonsense of;
To attempt to dismiss as nonsense; to ignore or belittle the significance of something; to render unimportant or puny.
To joke around, to waste time
An emphatic rejection of something one has just heard and does not believe or agree with.