HOT AIR
Dictionary entry overview: What does hot air mean? • HOT AIR (noun)
The noun HOT AIR has 2 senses:
1. air that has been heated and tends to rise
2. loud and confused and empty talk
Familiarity information: HOT AIR used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• HOT AIR (noun)
Meaning:
Air that has been heated and tends to rise
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("hot air" is a kind of...):
air (a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of)
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 ("hot air" is a kind of...):
bunk; hokum; meaninglessness; nonsense; nonsensicality (a message that seems to convey no meaning)
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