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absurd
absurdity
absurdly
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against your better judgmentidiom
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dopily
dorky
dottiness
dotty
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in his/her/their wisdomidiom
in someone's infinite wisdomidiom
inadvisable
injudicious
uncritical
uncritically
undiscriminating
unintelligent
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Nonsense

Examples of nonsensical

nonsensical
Even such a simple combinatorial system allows for 720 pair sequences, most of which are nonsensical.
Secondly, we cannot get nonsensical results, such as covered rates below zero or above 100 per cent.
I hope by now it will be apparent that this is probably a nonsensical question.
In a particular context, only one of the two possible readings will be selected, the other leading to a nonsensical utterance.
At the same time, functionless, nonsensical, and nonsimulatable individuals tend to disappear as the run of genetic programming progresses.
The lines in the older style of script are nonsensical and can be explained as mere writing practice.
This was done to recognize and avoid dependency relationships between variables to avoid nonsensical results.
Conclusively presuming them to be different might seem nonsensical.
These rumors are absurd and nonsensical, as the government has no intention whatsoever of baptizing us.
As healthcare organizations throughout the world deploy electronic health records, they will almost certainly experience breaches that engender unexpected and nonsensical situations.
The score emerges g ratifyingly unscathed after such a lengthy bout with uncaring and nonsensical staging.
Many of these randomly created individuals are functionless or nonsensical.
I regard the application of internalization to well-specified visual events as nonsensical.
In this case, no sentence will be absolutely nonsensical.
Yet (5), though nonsensical, is grammatical, while (6) is not.
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