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hogwash - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | hogwash |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, balderdash*, baloney*, bull*, bunk*, debris, drivel*, foolishness, poppycock*, refuse, rot, rubbish, trash, twaddle*, BS, hokum, hooey, horsefeathers, ridiculousness |
| Antonyms: | sense, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | drivel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foolish talk |
| Synonyms: | babble, balderdash*, blather, bunk*, double-talk, gibberish, gobbledygook*, hogwash*, jabber*, nonsense, poppycock*, rot*, rubbish*, tripe*, twaddle*, Greek, hooey, prating |
| Antonyms: | sense |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exaggeration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overstatement, embellishment |
| Synonyms: | amplification, baloney*, boasting, caricature, coloring, crock*, elaboration, embroidery, emphasis, enlargement, exaltation, excess, extravagance, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, figure of speech, fish story*, flight of fancy*, hogwash*, hyperbole, inflation, jazz*, line*, misrepresentation, pretension, rant, romance, stretch, untruth, whopper*, yarn*, aggrandizement, magnification, misjudgment, overemphasis, overestimation, pretentiousness, tall story |
| Antonyms: | reduction, understatement, minimization, unembellishment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fable |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fantasy, story |
| Synonyms: | allegory, apologue, bunk*, crock*, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, fantasy, fib, fiction, figment, fish story*, hogwash*, invention, legend, lie, myth, parable, romance, tale, untruth, white lie*, whopper*, yarn, bestiary, fairy story, old chestnut, old saw, one for the birds, tall story |
| Notes: | a fable is a short instructional tale, while a fairytale (or fairy tale) is told as amusement |
| Antonyms: | truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | falsehood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lie |
| Synonyms: | canard, cover-up, deceit, deception, dishonesty, distortion, equivocation, error, fable, fabrication, fallacy, falsity, fib, fiction, figment, fraud, hogwash*, line, mendacity, misstatement, perjury, pretense, prevarication, sham*, story, tale, tall tale*, untruth, whopper*, yarn, dissimulation, erroneousness, fakery, fallaciousness, falseness, feigning, fibbery, half truth, untruism, untruthfulness |
| Antonyms: | truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | guff |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
| Synonyms: | baloney, bull, bunk, drivel, foolishness, garbage, hogwash, poppycock, rubbish, bunkum, crap, flapdoodle, hooey |
| Main Entry: | junk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | odds and ends; garbage |
| Synonyms: | clutter, collateral, debris, filth, hogwash*, litter, miscellany, offal, refuse, rubbish, rubble, rummage, salvage, scrap, trash, waste |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | malarky |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, babble, balderdash*, baloney*, bombast, bull*, bunk*, drivel, foolishness, gibberish, hogwash*, hot air*, poppycock*, prattle, rubbish, silliness, trash*, giddiness, jive* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nonsense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | craziness, ridiculousness |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, babble, balderdash*, baloney*, bombast, bull*, bunk*, claptrap*, drivel, fatuity, flightiness, folly, foolishness, fun, gibberish, hogwash*, hot air*, imprudence, inanity, jazz, jest, joke, madness, mumbo jumbo*, palaver, poppycock*, prattle, pretense, ranting, rashness, rot, rubbish, scrawl, scribble, silliness, soft soap*, stupidity, thoughtlessness, trash*, tripe*, bananas, giddiness, hooey, irrationality, jive*, ludicrousness, senselessness |
| Antonyms: | clarity, common sense, fact, sense, truth, understanding, intelligibility |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | piffle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
| Synonyms: | balderdash*, baloney*, bull*, bunk*, drivel, empty talk, foolishness, gibberish, hogwash*, hot air*, palaver, poppycock*, prattle, rubbish, silliness, trash*, futile talk, hooey, jive*, useless words |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | poppycock |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
| Synonyms: | babble, balderdash*, baloney*, bull*, bunk*, drivel, empty talk, foolishness, gibberish, hogwash*, hot air*, malarkey, mumbo jumbo*, palaver, prattle, rubbish, silliness, trash*, foolery, hooey, jive* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | propaganda |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | information that is designed to mislead or persuade |
| Synonyms: | advertising, announcement, brainwashing*, doctrine, evangelism, handout, hogwash*, hype*, indoctrination, promotion, publication, publicity, agitprop, disinformation, implantation, inculcation, newspeak, promulgation, proselytism |
| Antonyms: | truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | refuse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | garbage |
| Synonyms: | debris, dregs, dross, dump, dust, hogwash*, junk, litter, muck, offal, remains, residue, rubbish, scraps, scum*, sediment, slop*, swill, trash, waste, dunghill, leavings, rejectamenta, sweepings, waste matter |
| Antonyms: | assets, property, possessions |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rigmarole |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
| Synonyms: | babble, balderdash*, baloney, blather, bull, bunk*, drivel, foolishness, gibberish, gobbledygook*, hogwash*, hot air*, jargon, madness, mumbo jumbo*, palaver, poppycock*, prattle, rubbish, silliness, trash*, jive*, senselessness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tripe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense, rubbish |
| Synonyms: | balderdash, baloney*, bilge, bull*, bunk*, drivel, garbage, gibberish, hogwash, hot air*, poppycock, trash, BS, bosh, hooey |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | twaddle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
| Synonyms: | babble, balderdash*, baloney*, bull, bunk*, chatter, drivel, foolishness, gibberish, hogwash*, hot air*, mumbo jumbo*, palaver, poppycock*, prattle, rubbish, silliness, trash*, tripe, BS, crap, hooey, idle talk, jive*, stultiloquence |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | big talk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boastful talk |
| Synonyms: | boasting, exaggeration, fish story, gas, hogwash, hot air, bragging, fancy talk, fine talk, self-aggrandizing, tall story, tall talk |
| Main Entry: | bull |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
| Synonyms: | balderdash, baloney, bilge, claptrap, hogwash, rubbish, trash, bunkum, crap |
| Antonyms: | fact, truth |
| Main Entry: | mumbo jumbo |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
| Synonyms: | claptrap, double-talk, empty talk, gibberish, gobbledygook, hocus-pocus, hogwash, mere words, obscuration |
| Main Entry: | double Dutch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | incomprehensible talk or writing |
| Synonyms: | babble, baloney, gibberish, gobbledygook, hogwash, malarkey, mumbo jumbo, nonsense, rubbish, Choctaw, Greek, hokum, hooey |
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