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EMPTY WORDS

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• 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.

• 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)

"Don't use your hairdryer in the shower, you prat"
(English proverb)
"Make my enemy brave and strong, so that if defeated, I will not be ashamed."
(Native American proverb, tribe unknown)
"The forest provides food to the hunter after they are exhaustingly tired."
(Zimbabwean proverb)
"An idle man is up to no good."
(Corsican proverb)

Useful links:
Definition of meaninglessness
Definition of nonsensicality
Definition of bunk
Pronunciation of hokum
Definition of nonsense

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