| Main Entry: | bombast |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boasting |
Synonyms: |
altiloquence, balderdash, bluster, bombastry, braggadocio, cotton, exaggeration, fustian, gasconade, grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, pad, padded, pomposity, rage, rant, rave, rhapsody, rhetoric, rodomontade, stuff, stuffed, tumidity, turgidity, tympany |
Antonyms: |
plain speaking |
| Main Entry: | bluster |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bullying, intimidation |
Synonyms: |
bluff, boasting, boisterousness, bombast, braggadocio, bragging, bravado, crowing, rabidity, rampancy, swagger, swaggering |
| Main Entry: | boast |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brag; source of pride |
Synonyms: |
avowal, bluster, bombast, braggadocio, bravado, exaggeration, gasconade, grandiloquence, heroics, joy, pretension, pride, pride and joy, self-satisfaction, swank, treasure, vaunt |
Antonyms: |
deprecation, modesty |
| Main Entry: | bravado |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boastfulness |
Synonyms: |
blowing, bluff, bluster, boasting, bombast, braggadocio, bragging, bullying, crowing, fancy talk, fanfaronade, fuming, gasconade, grandiosity, guts*, hot air, pomposity, pretension, raging, railing, rant, selfglorification, storming, swaggering, swelling, talk, tall talk |
Antonyms: |
cowardice, fear, fearfulness, modesty, restraint |
| Main Entry: | jargon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | specialized language; dialect |
Synonyms: |
abracadabra, argot, balderdash, banality, bombast, bunk, buzzwords, cant, cliché, colloquialism, commonplace term, doublespeak, drivel, fustian, gibberish, hackneyed term, idiom, insipidity, lexicon, lingo, mumbo jumbo, neologism, newspeak, nonsense, overused term, palaver, parlance, patois, patter, rigmarole, shoptalk, slang, slanguage, speech, stale language, street talk, tongue, trite language, twaddle, usage, vernacular, vocabulary |
Antonyms: |
standard |
| Main Entry: | malarky |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
Synonyms: |
absurdity, babble, balderdash, baloney, bombast, bull*, bunk, drivel, foolishness, gibberish, giddiness, hogwash, hot air, jive, poppycock, prattle, rubbish, silliness, trash* |
| Main Entry: | nonsense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | craziness, ridiculousness |
Synonyms: |
absurdity, babble, balderdash, baloney, bananas, bombast, bull*, bunk, claptrap, drivel, fatuity, flightiness, folly, foolishness, fun, gibberish, giddiness, hogwash, hooey, hot air, imprudence, inanity, irrationality, jazz, jest, jive, joke, ludicrousness, madness, mumbo jumbo, palaver, poppycock, prattle, pretense, ranting, rashness, rot, rubbish, scrawl, scribble, senselessness, silliness, soft soap, stupidity, thoughtlessness, trash*, tripe |
Antonyms: |
clarity, common sense, fact, intelligibility, sense, truth, understanding |
| Main Entry: | rant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | yelling, raving |
Synonyms: |
bluster, bombast, diatribe, fustian, harangue, oration, philippic, rhapsody, rhetoric, rodomontade, tirade, vociferation |
Antonyms: |
calm, quiet |
| Main Entry: | rhetoric |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wordiness; long speech |
Synonyms: |
address, balderdash, big talk, bombast, composition, discourse, elocution, eloquence, flowery language, fustian, grandiloquence, hot air, hyperbole, magniloquence, oration, oratory, pomposity, rant, verbosity |
Antonyms: |
conciseness |
| Main Entry: | speech |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | formal talk to audience |
Synonyms: |
address, allocution, appeal, bombast, chalk talk, commentary, debate, declamation, diatribe, discourse, disquisition, dissertation, eulogy, exhortation, harangue, homily, invocation, keynote, lecture, opus, oration, oratory, panegyric, paper, parlance, parley, pep talk, pitch, prelection, recitation, rhetoric, salutation, sermon, spiel*, stump, tirade, valedictory |
Antonyms: |
listening |