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EMPTY WORDS

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Dictionary entry overview: What does empty words mean?

• EMPTY WORDS (noun)
The noun EMPTY WORDS has 1 sense:

1. loud and confused and empty talk

Familiarity information: EMPTY WORDS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• EMPTY WORDS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Loud and confused and empty talk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

empty talk; empty words; hot air; palaver; rhetoric

Context example:

mere rhetoric

Hypernyms ("empty words" is a kind of...):

bunk; hokum; meaninglessness; nonsense; nonsensicality (a message that seems to convey no meaning)

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