EMPTY WORDS
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)
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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