| Main Entry: | balderdash |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
Synonyms: |
bosh, bull, bunk, claptrap, crock, drivel, flummery, fudge, fustian, jargon, malarkey, moonshine, poppycock, rigmarole, rot, trash, tripe, twaddle |
| Main Entry: | bombastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pompous, grandiloquent |
Synonyms: |
aureate, balderdash, big-talking, declamatory, euphuistic, flowery, full of hot air, fustian, grandiose, high-flown, highfalutin, histrionic, inflated, loudmouthed, magniloquent, orotund, ostentatious, overblown, ranting, rhapsodic, rhetorical, sonorous, stuffed shirt, swollen, tumid, turgid, verbose, windbag, windy, wordy |
Antonyms: |
humble, quiet, reserved, restrained |
| Main Entry: | bunk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
Synonyms: |
applesauce, balderdash, baloney, bilge, claptrap, eyewash, flimflam, garbage*, hogwash, hooey, horsefeathers, jazz, piffle, poppycock, rot*, rubbish, tomfoolery*, tommyrot, trash*, twaddle |
Antonyms: |
sense |
| Main Entry: | double-talk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense communicated |
Synonyms: |
amphibiology, balderdash, baloney, bull*, drivel, equivocation, flimflam, gibberish, jazz, mumbo jumbo, rigmarole |
Antonyms: |
sense, straight talk |
| Main Entry: | drivel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foolish talk |
Synonyms: |
Greek, babble, balderdash, blather, bunk, double-talk, gibberish, gobbledygook, hogwash, hooey, jabber, nonsense, poppycock, prating, rot*, rubbish*, tripe, twaddle |
Antonyms: |
sense |
| Main Entry: | gibberish |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense talk |
Synonyms: |
babble, balderdash, blah-blah, blather, chatter, claptrap, double talk, drivel, gobbledygook, hocus-pocus, jabber, jargon, mumbo jumbo, palaver*, prattle, scat, twaddle, yammer |
Antonyms: |
sense |
| Main Entry: | gobbledygook |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | jargon |
Synonyms: |
amphigory, balderdash, baloney, bosh, bull*, bunk, cant, drivel, gibberish, hooey, macaronics, rigmarole, rubbish* |
| Main Entry: | hogwash |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
Synonyms: |
BS, absurdity, balderdash, baloney, bull*, bunk, debris, drivel*, foolishness, hokum, hooey, horsefeathers, poppycock, refuse, ridiculousness, rot, rubbish, trash, twaddle |
Antonyms: |
sense, truth |
| Main Entry: | humbug |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
Synonyms: |
BS, babble, balderdash, baloney, bull*, bunk, drivel, empty talk, gibberish, hogwash, hooey, hot air, poppycock, pretense, rubbish, silliness, trash* |
| 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 |