Synonyms of hooey

hooey

noun

ˈhü-ē 

as in nonsense

language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense

stories about the inn being haunted are just a lot of hooey

Synonyms & Similar Words

• nonsense
• nuts
• garbage
• blah
• rubbish
• silliness
• drool
• stupidity
• poppycock
• hogwash
• hokum
• baloney
• claptrap
• bunk
• bunkum
• twaddle
• guff
• muck
• balderdash
• piffle
• jazz
• absurdity
• malarkey
• tosh
• codswallop
• craziness
• beans
• foolishness
• crock
• trash
• flapdoodle
• trumpery
• insanity
• bull
• tommyrot
• humbuggery
• folderol
• absurdness
• rot
• blither
• bilge
• blather
• drivel
• punk
• fudge
• crapola
• blatherskite
• bosh
• blarney
• madness
• fiddlesticks
• horsefeathers
• fiddle
• humbug
• fiddle-faddle
• taradiddle
• hoodoo
• folly
• applesauce
• nerts
• hokeypokey
• flannel
• moonshine
• senselessness
• idiocy
• slush
• kookiness
• tomfoolery
• foolery
• inanity
• asininity
• lunacy
• imbecility
• hocus-pocus
• rigmarole
• greek
• gas
• fatuity
• witlessness
• inaneness
• monkey business
• hot air
• double-talk
• hoity-toity
• shenanigan(s)
• monkeyshine(s)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• reasonableness
• rationality
• sense
• common sense
• reasonability
• sensibleness
• horse sense
• wisdom
• judgment
• discernment
• levelheadedness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of hooey

But 1990's Ghost, which is barely half-good, pulls this sort of New Age hooey better. — Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly, 13 June 2026

Cinderella Man is unalloyed emotional manipulation, and while the cast all dig into the maudlin hooey — Paul Giamatti is especially good as the crusty trainer — nothing here has the spark of real life. — Will Leitch, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025

The old line about the 28 gauge having a square load is hooey. — Ron Spomer, Outdoor Life, 11 Dec. 2019

Indeed, some devices are more powerful than others, and a few are just plain hooey. — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019

But as comforting as a toddy may be, the notion of a dose of booze as a cold cure has always struck me as a load of hooey. — M. Carrie Allan, charlotteobserver, 23 Jan. 2018

The scene where Skerrett has a highland fling with a blond, bearded hunk is more than a wee bit full of hooey. — David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Jan. 2018

There was a whole lot of narrative hooey to explain the theme, which mostly had to do with caterpillars becoming butterflies, girls becoming women, et cetera. — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2017

Contrary to the previous load of hooey dispensed by Junior and the first family, this dude was not a translator. — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 18 July 2017