| Main Entry: | big talk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boastful talk |
Synonyms: |
boasting, bragging, exaggeration, fancy talk, fine talk, fish story, gas, hogwash, hot air, self-aggrandizing, tall story, tall talk |
| Main Entry: | defiance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disobedience, disregard |
Synonyms: |
affront, audacity, back talk, big talk, boldness, bravado, brazenness, call, cartel, challenge, command, confrontation, contempt, contrariness, contumacy, dare, defy, effrontery, enjoinder, factiousness, gas*, guts*, hot air, impudence, impugnment, insolence, insubordination, insurgence, insurgency, intractableness, lip, muster*, opposition, order, perversity, provocation, rebellion, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, revolt, sass, spite, stump, summons, temerity, throwing of the gauntlet, unruliness |
Antonyms: |
acquiescence, obedience, regard, respect, submission, subordination |
| Main Entry: | hyperbole |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exaggeration |
Synonyms: |
PR, amplification, big talk, coloring, distortion, embellishment, embroidering, enlargement, hype*, laying it on thick, magnification, metaphor, mountain out of molehill, overstatement, tall talk |
Antonyms: |
understatement |
| Main Entry: | pretension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | airs, snobbishness |
Synonyms: |
affectation, big talk, charade, conceit, disguise, fake*, false front, front, hypocrisy, ostentation, phony, pomposity, pretentiousness, put-on, self-importance, show, showboat, showiness, showoff, snobbery, splash*, vainglory, vanity |
Antonyms: |
honesty, humility |
| 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: | hot air |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | empty talk |
Synonyms: |
big talk, blah-blah-blah, bunk, gas, idle talk, wind |
| Main Entry: | grandioseness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pretentiousness |
Synonyms: |
affectation, big talk, charade, conceit, disguise, fake*, false front, front, grandiosity, hypocrisy, ostentation, phony, pomposity, pompousness, pretension, put-on, self-importance, show, showboat, showiness, showoff, snobbery, splash*, va, vainglory |
| Main Entry: | grandiosity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pretentiousness |
Synonyms: |
affectation, big talk, charade, conceit, disguise, fake*, false front, front, grandioseness, hypocrisy, ostentation, phony, pomposity, pompousness, pretension, put-on, self-importance, show, showboat, showiness, showoff, snobbery, splash*, vainglory |
| Main Entry: | indocility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unruliness |
Synonyms: |
affront, audacity, back talk, big talk, boldness, bravado, brazenness, call, cartel, challenge, command, confrontation, contempt, contrariness, contumacy, dare, defy, disorderliness, effrontery, enjoinder, factiousness, fractiousness, gas*, guts*, hot air, impudence, impugnment, insolence, insubordination, insurgence, insurgency, intractability, intractableness, lip, muster*, obstinacy, obstinateness, obstreperousness, opposition, order, perversity, provocation, rebellion, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, revolt, sass, spite, stump, summons, temerity, throwing of the gauntlet, uncontrollability, uncontrollableness, ungovernableness, unmanageability, untowardness, wildness |
| Main Entry: | intractability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unruliness |
Synonyms: |
affront, audacity, back talk, big talk, boldness, bravado, brazenness, call, cartel, challenge, command, confrontation, contempt, contrariness, contumacy, dare, defy, disorderliness, effrontery, enjoinder, factiousness, fractiousness, gas*, guts*, hot air, impudence, impugnment, indocility, insolence, insubordination, insurgence, insurgency, intractableness, lip, muster*, obstinacy, obstinateness, obstreperousness, opposition, order, perversity, provocation, rebellion, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, revolt, sass, spite, stump, summons, temerity, throwing of the gauntlet, uncontrollability, uncontrollableness, ungovernableness, unmanageability, untowardness, wildness |