| Main Entry: | hooey |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
Synonyms: |
absurdity, babble, balderdash, baloney, bananas, blather, bombast, bull*, bunk, bunkum, claptrap, drivel, fatuity, flightiness, folly, foolishness, fun, garbage, gibberish, giddiness, hogwash, hot air, idiocy, imprudence, inanity, irrationality, ja |
| 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: | 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: | fiction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | made-up story |
Synonyms: |
anecdote, best seller, book, cliff-hanger, clothesline, concoction, crock, drama, fable, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, fib, figment of imagination, fish story, hooey, imagination, improvisation, invention, legend, lie, misrepresentation, myth, narrative, novel, potboiler, prevarication, romance, smoke*, storytelling, tale, tall story, terminological inexactitude, untruth, whopper, work of imagination, yarn |
Antonyms: |
non-fiction, truth |
| 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: | guff |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
Synonyms: |
baloney, bull, bunk, bunkum, crap, drivel, flapdoodle, foolishness, garbage, hogwash, hooey, poppycock, rubbish |
| Main Entry: | hoax |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trick |
Synonyms: |
cheat, cock-and-bull story, con game, con*, crock, deceit, deception, dodge, fabrication, fake, falsification, fast one, fast shuffle, fib, flimflam, fraud, gimmick, gyp, hooey, humbug, hustle, imposture, joke, lie, practical joke, prank, put-on, racket, ruse, scam, sell, shift, snow job, spoof, sting, swindle, whopper |
| 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: | 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 |