Synonyms of the word buzzword


BUZZWORDBUNK - CANT - HOKUM - MEANINGLESSNESS - NONSENSE - NONSENSICALITY

buzzword

  • n. (pejorative) A word drawn from or imitative of technical jargon, and often rendered meaningless and fashionable…

bunk

  • n. One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
  • n. (nautical) A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
  • n. (military) A cot.
  • n. (US) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
  • n. (US, dialect) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
  • v. To occupy a bunk.
  • v. To provide a bunk.
  • n. (slang) Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.
  • adj. (slang) defective, broken, not functioning properly.
  • v. (Britain) To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk…
  • v. (dated) To expel from a school.

cant

  • n. (countable) An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.
  • n. (countable, uncountable) A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
  • n. Shelta.
  • n. (uncountable, pejorative) Empty, hypocritical talk.
  • n. (uncountable) Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
  • n. (countable, heraldry) A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name (or, less often, some…
  • n. (obsolete) A call for bidders at a public fair; an auction.
  • v. (intransitive) To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.
  • v. (intransitive) To speak in set phrases.
  • v. (intransitive) To preach in a singsong fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.
  • v. (intransitive, heraldry) Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.
  • v. (obsolete) To sell by auction, or bid at an auction.
  • n. (obsolete) Side, edge, corner, niche.
  • n. Slope, the angle at which something is set.
  • n. A corner (of a building).
  • n. An outer or external angle.
  • n. An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a tilt.
  • n. A movement or throw that overturns something.
  • n. A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias…
  • n. (coopering) A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
  • n. A segment of the rim of a wooden cogwheel.
  • n. (nautical) A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
  • v. (transitive) To set (something) at an angle.
  • v. (transitive) To give a sudden turn or new direction to.
  • v. (transitive) To bevel an edge or corner.
  • v. (transitive) To overturn so that the contents are emptied.
  • v. (transitive) To divide or parcel out.
  • adj. (Britain, dialect) lively, lusty.

hokum

  • n. Meaningless nonsense with an outward appearance of being impressive and legitimate.

meaninglessness

  • n. The state of lacking meaning; the quality of being meaningless.
  • n. Anything that is meaningless.

nonsense

  • n. Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or seem to have no meaning.
  • n. An untrue statement.
  • n. Something foolish.
  • n. (literature) A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by…
  • n. (biology) A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.
  • v. To make nonsense of.
  • v. To attempt to dismiss as nonsense.
  • v. (intransitive) To joke around, to waste time.
  • adj. (biochemistry) Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become…
  • adj. nonsensical.

nonsensicality

  • n. (uncountable) The state or condition of being nonsensical.
  • n. (countable) A nonsensical belief, remark, etc.

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