Synonyms of the word

claptrap

• n. Empty verbiage or nonsense.
• n. (historical) A device for producing a clapping sound in theaters.
• n. A trick or device to gain applause; humbug.

blah

• n. (uncountable, informal) Nonsense; drivel; idle, meaningless talk.
• n. (informal) (in plural, the blahs) A general or ambiguous feeling of discomfort, dissatisfaction, uneasiness,…
• adj. (informal) Dull; uninteresting; insipid.
• adj. (informal) Low in spirit or health; down.
• interj. An expression of mild frustration.
• interj. (When spoken repeatedly, often three times in succession: blah blah blah!) Imitative of idle, meaningless…
• interj. Representing the sound of vomiting. See bleah, bleh.
• v. (intransitive) To utter idle, meaningless talk.

bombast

• n. Originally, cotton, or cotton wool.
• n. Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding.
• n. (figuratively) High-sounding words; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking; language…
• v. To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.
• adj. High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.

fustian

• n. A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff.
• n. A class of cloth including corduroy and velveteen.
• n. Pompous, inflated or pretentious writing or speech.

grandiloquence

• n. lofty, pompous or bombastic speech or writing.

grandiosity

• n. The state of being grandiose (pompous or pretentious).

magniloquence

• n. The quality of being magniloquent; pompous discourse; grandiloquence.

ornateness

• n. The state of being ornate.

rant

• n. A criticism done by ranting.
• n. A wild, emotional, and sometimes incoherent articulation.
• n. A type of dance step usually performed in clogs, and particularly (but not exclusively) associated with…
• v. To speak or shout at length in an uncontrollable anger.
• v. To criticize by ranting.
• v. To dance rant steps.

rhetoric

• adj. Synonym of rhetorical.
• n. The art of using language, especially public speaking, as a means to persuade.
• n. Meaningless language with an exaggerated style intended to impress.