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Synonyms for Hot air:

• adj.

  • meaningless (adjective)

  • meaningless,
  • Purportless,
  • good-for-nothing,
  • unmeaning,
  • doublespeak,
  • doesn’t cut it,
  • Unpurposed.

  • Other relevant words: (adjective)

  • flatulence.

• n.

  •
  • foul play,
  • misconduct,
  • corruption,
  • guile,
  • smoke and mirrors,
  • deception,
  • dishonesty,
  • duplicity,
  • deceit,
  • Double dealing.

  • absurdity (noun)

  • senselessness,
  • idiocies,
  • BSS,
  • flapdoodle,
  • silliness,
  • jives,
  • jazz,
  • jive.

  • backtalk (noun)

  • mouth.

  • big talk (noun)

  • selfaggrandizing,
  • self-aggrandizings,
  • self aggrandizing,
  • self aggrandizings,
  • fine talks,
  • big-talk,
  • selfaggrandizings.

  • boast (noun)

  • braggadocio.

  • braggadocio (noun)

  • boastfulnesses,
  • crowing bluster,
  • crowing blusters.

  • bravado (noun)

  • pre tensions,
  • blowings,
  • pre tension,
  • pre-tension,
  • braggings,
  • self-glorifications,
  • stormings,
  • ragings,
  • self glorifications,
  • self glorification,
  • fancy talks,
  • pre-tensions,
  • swaggerings,
  • selfglorifications,
  • bullyings.

  • chat (noun)

  • heart to heart,
  • heart to hearts,
  • heart-to-hearts.

  • declaration (noun)

  • dis-closure,
  • two cents’ worths,
  • ex-planations,
  • ex-positions,
  • re velation,
  • re mark,
  • ex planations,
  • in formations,
  • de-positions,
  • de-position,
  • re velations,
  • re-velation,
  • ex-position,
  • de position,
  • de positions,
  • dis closure,
  • re marks,
  • dis-closures,
  • dis closures,
  • in-formation,
  • re-velations,
  • re-marks,
  • ex planation,
  • in-formations.

  • defiance (noun)

  • recalcitrance,
  • throwing of the gauntlet,
  • rebelliousness,
  • Insurgence,
  • enjoinder,
  • Impugnment,
  • Factiousness,
  • spite,
  • impudence.

  • empty talk (noun)

  • propaganda,
  • blah-blah-blah,
  • empty talk,
  • gas.

  • empty words (noun)

  • empty words.

  • flatulence (noun)

  • idle words,
  • windiness.

  • hooey (noun)

  • bunkum,
  • Jas,
  • JA.

  • hot air (noun)

  • palaver.

  • humbug (noun)

  • pre tense,
  • pre tenses,
  • pre-tense.

  • indocility (noun)

  • in-docility,
  • un-controllability,
  • un manageability,
  • in-docilities,
  • un-controllableness,
  • in docility,
  • un governablenesses,
  • un controllabilities,
  • un-governablenesses,
  • dis-orderlinesses,
  • in docilities,
  • un manageabilities,
  • wildnesses,
  • un-controllablenesses,
  • un-manageability,
  • un-controllabilities,
  • un-manageabilities,
  • un-towardness,
  • dis orderliness,
  • un-towardnesses,
  • un controllablenesses,
  • un-governableness,
  • un towardnesses,
  • un governableness,
  • un controllability,
  • un controllableness,
  • dis-orderliness,
  • un towardness,
  • dis orderlinesses.

  • intractability (noun)

  • intractability.

  • mouth (noun)

  • idle talks.

  • nonsense (noun)

  • non-sense,
  • non-senses,
  • non sense,
  • non senses.

  • Other relevant words: (noun)

  • fancy talk,
  • banana,
  • humbug,
  • big talk,
  • talk,
  • self-glorification,
  • Testimonies,
  • heart-to-heart,
  • two cents’ worth,
  • malarky,
  • hooey,
  • tripe,
  • saying,
  • rantings,
  • eloquence,
  • say so,
  • fumings,
  • chit chat,
  • chat,
  • wildness,
  • tommyrot,
  • bravado,
  • boastfulness,
  • poppycock,
  • hokum,
  • uncontrollableness,
  • scribble,
  • guff,
  • hogwash,
  • prattle,
  • tirade,
  • raging,
  • sayings,
  • flowery language,
  • selfglorification,
  • idle talk,
  • wind,
  • rhetoric,
  • self-aggrandizing,
  • gossip,
  • tall story,
  • promulgation,
  • nonsense,
  • fine talk,
  • bunk,
  • chit-chat,
  • Fanfaronade,
  • declaration,
  • trivial talk,
  • piffle,
  • nonsensicality,
  • crowings,
  • fustians,
  • twaddle,
  • Boshes,
  • bosh,
  • defiance,
  • air,
  • in formation,
  • Fooleries,
  • rigmarole,
  • foolery,
  • meaninglessness,
  • absurdity,
  • Re-mark,
  • gabble.

  • piffle (noun)

  • futile talk,
  • useless words.

  • prattle (noun)

  • chit-chats,
  • trivial talks,
  • tattlings,
  • chit chats,
  • jabberings.

  • recalcitrance (noun)

  • de spites,
  • despites,
  • de-spites,
  • de spite,
  • de-spite.

  • rhetoric (noun)

  • dis-course,
  • hyper-boles,
  • dis courses,
  • hyper bole,
  • hyper boles,
  • flowery languages,
  • hyper-bole,
  • dis-courses,
  • dis course.

  • substance (noun)

  • hot air.

  • talk (noun)

  • in-sinuation,
  • in-sinuations.

  • twaddle (noun)

  • Stultiloquence.

  • unruliness (noun)

  • intractableness.

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  • Other relevant words (noun):

  • exaggeration,
  • hyperbole,
  • rubbish,
  • razzmatazz,
  • cobblers,
  • froth,
  • drivel,
  • gasconade,
  • Jawing,
  • rant,
  • exaltation,
  • Bombastry,
  • magniloquence,
  • overstatement,
  • long-windedness,
  • rot,
  • Twattle,
  • scat,
  • natter,
  • tosh,
  • apple sauce,
  • enhancement,
  • Storming,
  • clatter,
  • babble,
  • elaboration,
  • blather,
  • waffle,
  • wittering,
  • Double Dutch,
  • stuff and nonsense,
  • bop,
  • jabberwocky,
  • GUP,
  • tommy-rot,
  • gammon,
  • song and dance,
  • yakkety-yak,
  • stuff,
  • steam,
  • turgidity,
  • overemphasis,
  • drool,
  • crock,
  • bladder,
  • claptrap,
  • inflation,
  • blind,
  • raving,
  • boasting,
  • double-talk,
  • Gibble-gabble,
  • yak,
  • Vapouring,
  • grandiloquence,
  • codswallop,
  • blabber,
  • stretch,
  • blethers,
  • chitter-chatter,
  • embellishment,
  • fustian,
  • horse feathers,
  • ranting,
  • prolixity,
  • swaggering,
  • trash,
  • horseshit,
  • gibber,
  • garbage,
  • small talk,
  • swill,
  • magnification,
  • malarkey,
  • gobbledygook,
  • bluff,
  • repetition,
  • rigamarole,
  • declamation,
  • thermal,
  • wish-wash,
  • flimflam,
  • sesquipedality,
  • mumbo jumbo,
  • Prittle-prattle,
  • con,
  • Puffery,
  • tittle-tattle,
  • bushwa,
  • Prating,
  • highfaluting,
  • Bavardage,
  • pomposity,
  • boloney,
  • Haranguing,
  • blustering,
  • romanticization,
  • jargon,
  • extravagance,
  • bs,
  • boast,
  • bluster,
  • foolishness,
  • pretentiousness,
  • cackle,
  • highfalutin,
  • rattle,
  • gabbling,
  • Bibble-babble,
  • jabbering,
  • rodomontade,
  • clack,
  • patter,
  • crap,
  • Palavering,
  • tall talk,
  • fiddle-faddle,
  • tumult,
  • fish story,
  • clishmaclaver,
  • mere talk,
  • gash,
  • taradiddle,
  • blab,
  • gab,
  • caqueterie,
  • jaw,
  • Cackling,
  • prate,
  • flummery,
  • oratory,
  • shit,
  • trivia,
  • verbiage,
  • show,
  • bilge,
  • eyewash,
  • bragging,
  • Indocility,
  • gabbing,
  • excess,
  • jabber,
  • chatter,
  • bullshit,
  • witter,
  • caquet,
  • bombast,
  • blether,
  • yack,
  • spouting,
  • moonshine,
  • verbosity,
  • blah,
  • prattling,
  • line,
  • recalcitrancy,
  • blah-blah,
  • wordiness,
  • Babblement,
  • gibberish,
  • buncombe,
  • enlargement,
  • gobbledegook,
  • balls,
  • nattering,
  • embroidery,
  • baloney,
  • bull,
  • babbling,
  • balderdash.

How to use «Hot air» in context?

Whendescribes «hot air,» he is referring to the gas that is created when an object is heated up. This gas has a higher temperature than the surrounding air. When the gas is released, it creates a hot air balloon.

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Synonyms:

abate,
calm down,
check,
contract,
crumble,
curb,
curtail,
cut down,
decay,
decline.

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