Synonyms of hot air

hot air

noun

1

as in fanfaronade

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 & Similar Words

• fanfaronade
• gasconade
• rhetoric
• brag
• rhodomontade
• cockalorum
• chatter
• gas
• magniloquence
• rant
• bull
• grandiloquence
• bombast
• rodomontade
• braggadocio
• bluster
• jawing
• rhapsody
• wind
• oratory
• prattle
• babble
• turgidity
• jabber
• pomposity
• windiness
• verbosity
• gabble
• blab
• prating
• gibberish
• gibber
• swagger
• vaunt
• drivel
• patter
• yammering
• bloviation
• egotism
• self-conceit
• self-importance

2

as in rhetoric

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 & Similar Words

• rhetoric
• wind
• jazz
• gas
• fustian
• nonsense
• oratory
• grandiloquence
• bombast
• verbiage
• claptrap
• hogwash
• jabberwocky
• gibberish
• grandiosity
• loftiness
• drivel
• pomposity
• humbug
• moonshine
• floweriness
• pretension
• garrulousness
• verbosity
• garrulity
• affectedness
• wordiness
• windiness
• verboseness
• pretentiousness