Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gossip |
| Synonyms: | allusion, badinage, banter, blather, bombast, bunk, buzz*, cant, chat, chatter, chitchat, conversation, cry, gab, grapevine, hearsay, hint, hot air, idle talk, innuendo, insinuation, jaw, jive, lip, noise, nonsense*, palaver, persiflage, prose, racket, raillery, report, rot*, rubbish*, rumble*, rumor, scuttlebutt, small talk, trash*, tête-à-tête, yarn |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | claptrap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | empty talk |
| Synonyms: | bombast, bunk, drivel, nonsense |
| Main Entry: | euphuism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inflation |
| Synonyms: | Gongorism, bombast, delicacy, floridness, fustian, grandiloquence, pomposity, purism, rhetoric, wordiness |
| Main Entry: | flatulence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pomposity |
| Synonyms: | babble, boasting, bombast, claptrap, empty talk, fustian, hot air, idle words, turgidity, twaddle, windiness |
| Main Entry: | magniloquence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pomposity |
| Synonyms: | boastful, bombast, eloquence, grandiloquence, grandiosity |
| Notes: | magniloquence refers to a language that is lofty and extravagant, whereas grandiloquence refers to a language that is pompous or bombastic |
| Main Entry: | pomposity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | grandiloquence |
| Synonyms: | balderdash, bombast, nonsense, pretension |
| Main Entry: | braggadocio |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boast |
| Synonyms: | boastfulness, bombast, brag, bragging, crowing. bluster, gasconade, hot air, rodomontade, vaunt |
| Main Entry: | fanfaronade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boast |
| Synonyms: | bluster, boasting, bombast, brag, braggadocio, bravado, crowing, gasconade, gloating, rodomontade, swagger, swaggering |
| Main Entry: | gasconade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boast |
| Synonyms: | avowal, bluster, bombast, brag, braggadocio, bravado, exaggeration, fanfaronade, grandiloquence, heroics, joy, pretension, pride, pride and joy, rodomontade, self-satisfaction, swank, treasure, vaunt |
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