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| Main Entry: | hooey |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, babble, balderdash*, baloney*, bananas*, blather, bombast, bull*, bunk*, claptrap*, drivel, fatuity, flightiness, folly, foolishness, fun, garbage, gibberish, giddiness, hogwash*, hot air*, idiocy, imprudence, inanity, irrationality, bunkum, ja |
* = 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: | fiction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | made-up story |
| Synonyms: | anecdote, book, concoction, crock*, drama, fable, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, fib, fish story*, imagination, improvisation, invention, legend, lie, misrepresentation, myth, narrative, novel, prevarication, romance, smoke*, tale, untruth, whopper*, yarn*, best seller, cliff-hanger, clothesline, figment of imagination, hooey, potboiler, storytelling, tall story, terminological inexactitude, work of imagination |
| Antonyms: | truth, non-fiction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gobbledygook |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | jargon |
| Synonyms: | balderdash*, baloney*, bull*, bunk*, cant, drivel, gibberish, rigmarole, rubbish*, amphigory, bosh, hooey, macaronics |
* = 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: | hoax |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trick |
| Synonyms: | cheat, cock-and-bull story*, con*, con game*, crock*, deceit, deception, dodge, fabrication, fake, fib, flimflam*, fraud, gimmick, gyp*, humbug*, hustle, imposture, joke, lie, practical joke, prank, racket, ruse, scam, sell, shift, snow job*, spoof, sting, swindle, whopper*, falsification, fast one, fast shuffle, hooey, put-on |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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 |
| Main Entry: | bunk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
| Synonyms: | applesauce*, balderdash, baloney*, bilge*, claptrap, flimflam*, garbage*, hogwash*, jazz*, piffle*, poppycock, rot*, rubbish, tomfoolery*, trash*, twaddle*, eyewash, hooey, horsefeathers, tommyrot |
| Antonyms: | sense |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | humbug |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
| Synonyms: | babble, balderdash*, baloney*, bull*, bunk*, drivel, empty talk, gibberish, hogwash*, hot air*, poppycock*, pretense, rubbish, silliness, trash*, BS, hooey |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | garbage, nonsense |
| Synonyms: | balderdash, bilge, bunk, claptrap, drivel, foolishness, guff, hogwash, moonshine*, poppycock, rubbish, silliness, hooey, stuff and nonsense, tommyrot |
| Antonyms: | truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rubbish |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
| Synonyms: | balderdash, bilge*, drivel, gibberish, hogwash, poppycock, rot*, bunkum, hooey, stuff and nonsense, tommyrot |
| Antonyms: | sense, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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