| Main Entry: | tall talk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exaggeration |
Synonyms: |
aggrandizement, 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, hyperbolism, inflation, jazz, line*, magnification, misjudgment, misrepresentation, overemphasis, overestimation, overstatement, pretension, pretentiousness, rant, romance, stretch, tall story, untruth, whopper, yarn |
| Main Entry: | bravado |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boastfulness |
Synonyms: |
blowing, bluff, bluster, boasting, bombast, braggadocio, bragging, bullying, crowing, fancy talk, fanfaronade, fuming, gasconade, grandiosity, guts*, hot air, pomposity, pretension, raging, railing, rant, selfglorification, storming, swaggering, swelling, talk, tall talk |
Antonyms: |
cowardice, fear, fearfulness, modesty, restraint |
| 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: | 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: | empty talk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | empty words |
Synonyms: |
gossip, hot air, palaver, propaganda, rhetoric, rumor, tall talk |