hot air | Definition of hot air

Synonyms and Antonyms of hot air

1 boastful speech or writing

his taking credit for the rescue was mostly hot air, since the boat was actually saved by the Coast Guard

Synonyms of hot air

bluster, bombast, brag, braggadocio, bull [slang], cockalorum, fanfaronade, gas, gasconade, grandiloquence, magniloquence, rant, rodomontade (also rhodomontade)

Words Related to hot air

oratory, rhapsody, rhetoric

pomposity, turgidity, wind

bloviation, verbosity, windiness

babble, blab, chatter, drivel, gabble, gibber, gibberish, jabber, prattle

jawing, patter, prating, yammering

egotism, self-conceit, self-importance, swagger, vaunt

2 language that is impressive-sounding but not meaningful or sincere

her campaign promise to "fight for the people" showed a taste for stale hot air

Synonyms of hot air

bombast, fustian, gas, grandiloquence, oratory, rhetoric, verbiage, wind

Words Related to hot air

claptrap, drivel, gibberish, hogwash, humbug, jabberwocky, jazz, moonshine, nonsense

affectedness, floweriness, grandiosity, loftiness, pomposity, pretension, pretentiousness

garrulity, garrulousness, verboseness, verbosity, windiness, wordiness