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hot air
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Noun hot air has 2 senses
- hot air(n = noun.substance) Array - air that has been heated and tends to rise; Array is a kind of air
- hot air(n = noun.communication) empty talk, empty words, palaver, rhetoric - loud and confused and empty talk; "mere rhetoric" is a kind of bunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality
THESAURUS
hot air
babble, babblement, balderdash, baloney, bavardage, bibble-babble, big talk, bilge, blab, blabber, blah, blah-blah, blather, blether, blethers, bombast, bombastry, bop, bosh, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, cackle, caquet, caqueterie, chat, chatter, chitter-chatter, clack, clatter, crap, fancy talk, fine talk, fire storm, fish story, flapdoodle, fustian, gab, gabble, gas, gibber, gibble-gabble, gobbledygook, gossip, guff, gup, highfalutin, highfaluting, hogwash, hokum, hooey, idle talk, jabber, malarkey, mere talk, moonshine, natter, nonsense talk, palaver, piffle, poppycock, prate, prating, prattle, prittle-prattle, rant, rodomontade, rot, scat, shit, superheated air, talkee-talkee, tall story, tall talk, thermal, tittle-tattle, tommyrot, tripe, twaddle, twattle, wind, yak, yakkety-yakROGET THESAURUS
hot air
Boasting
N boasting, boast, vaunt, crake, pretense, pretensions, puff, puffery, flourish, fanfaronade, gasconade, blague, bluff, gas, highfalutin, highfaluting, hot air, spread-eagleism, brag, braggardism, bravado, bunkum, buncombe, jactitation, jactancy, bounce, venditation, vaporing, rodomontade, bombast, fine talking, tall talk, magniloquence, teratology, heroics, Chauvinism, exaggeration, vanity, vox et praeterea nihil, much cry and little wool, brutum fulmen, exultation, gloriation, glorification, flourish of trumpets, triumph, boaster, braggart, braggadocio, Gascon, fanfaron, pretender, soi-disant, blower, bluffer, Foxy Quiller, blusterer, charlatan, jack-pudding, trumpeter, puppy, boasting, magniloquent, flaming, Thrasonic, stilted, gasconading, braggart, boastful, pretentious, soi-disant, vainglorious, highfalutin, highfaluting, spread- eagle, elate, elated, jubilant, triumphant, exultant, in high feather, flushed, flushed with victory, cock-a-hoop, on stilts, vaunted, vauntingly, let the galled jade wince, facta non verba.
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