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no-nonsense

no-nonsense adjective: practical, not tolerating from others or concerning oneself with anything silly or unimportant.

Adjective

no-nonsense (comparative more no-nonsense, superlative most no-nonsense)

  1. Practical, not tolerating from others or concerning oneself with anything silly or unimportant.
    • Her no-nonsense way of resolving issues impressed her superiors.
    • We can now better understand the vision of three local authorities to hire no-nonsense former Eastern Region General Manager Gerry Fiennes to take on his old British Rail adversaries - and win.2020 November 18, Howard Johnston, “The missing 'Lincs' and the sole survivor”, in Rail, page 58
  2. No-frills.
    • This grilled cheeze ^([sic]) sandwich makes for a rich but no-nonsense brunch […]2011, Vincent J. Guihan, New American Vegan, page 204

no-nonsense meaning in Kannada

no-nonsense in Kannada

ಗಂಭೀರವಾದ, ಲಾಘವವಲ್ಲದ, ಚೆಲ್ಲುಚೆಲ್ಲಾಗಿರದ, ಸುಸಂಬದ್ಧ

Examples of no-nonsense in a sentence

  • Pistorius […] has a reputation as a sharp-tongued, no-nonsense policymaker.2023 January 17, Kate Connolly, “Germany’s no-nonsense new defence minister faces early test over Ukraine”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
  • [Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney]’s been able to sell himself as a no-nonsense technocrat who knows how to steer a crisis.2025 April 2, Sara Miller Llana, “Who is Mark Carney? Maybe just who Canada wants to face off against Trump.”, in The Christian Science...

Forms of no-nonsense

comparativemore no-nonsense
superlativemost no-nonsense

Words formed from no-nonsense

Questions about no-nonsense

What does no-nonsense mean?
No-nonsense means practical, not tolerating from others or concerning oneself with anything silly or unimportant.
What is no-nonsense in Kannada?
No-nonsense in Kannada is ಗಂಭೀರವಾದ, ಲಾಘವವಲ್ಲದ, ಚೆಲ್ಲುಚೆಲ್ಲಾಗಿರದ. See No-nonsense meaning in Kannada.
How do you use no-nonsense in a sentence?
Pistorius […] has a reputation as a sharp-tongued, no-nonsense policymaker.
What part of speech is no-nonsense?
No-nonsense is an adjective.

Words near no-nonsense in the dictionary

  1. no-no boys
  2. no-no spot
  3. no-no spots
  4. no-no square
  5. no-noes
  6. no-nonsense
  7. no-nonsensely
  8. no-nos
  9. no-one
  10. no-op
  11. no-ops

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Adapted from Wiktionary: no-nonsense (page history and authors); no-nonsense (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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