Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.

synonyms: blah, bombast, claptrap, rant.

Roget 517: meaninglessness, unmeaningness etc. adj.^†; scrabble.    empty sound, dead letter, vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.]; a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing;" sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal.   " nonsense, utter nonsense, gibberish; jargon, jabber, mere words, hocus-pocus, fustian, rant, bombast, balderdash, palaver, flummery, verbiage, babble, baverdage, baragouin^†, platitude, niaiserie^†; inanity; flap-doodle; rigmarole, rodomontade; truism; nugae canorae [Lat.]; twaddle, twattle, fudge, trash, garbage, humbug; poppy-cock [U.S.]; stuff, stuff and nonsense; bosh, rubbish, moonshine, wish-wash, fiddle-faddle; absurdity etc. 497; vagueness etc. (unintelligibility) 519.    [routine or reflexive statements without substantive thought, esp. legal] boilerplate, clich??.    ... show more

Roget 577: ornament; floridness c^†.    adj.. turgidity, turgescence^†; altiloquence etc. adj.^†; declamation, teratology^†; well-rounded periods; elegance etc. 578; orotundity.    inversion, antithesis, alliteration, paronomasia; figurativeness etc. (metaphor) 521.    flourish; flowers of speech, flowers of rhetoric; frills of style, euphuism^†, euphemism.    big-sounding words, high-sounding words; macrology^†, sesquipedalia verba [Lat.], Alexandrine; inflation, pretension; rant, bombast, fustian, prose run mad; fine writing; sesquipedality^†; Minerva press.    phrasemonger; euphuist^†, euphemist.    ... show more

Roget 579: inelegance; stiffness etc. adj.; unlettered Muse" [Gray]; barbarism; slang etc. 563; solecism etc. 568; mannerism etc. (affectation) 855; euphuism^†; fustian etc. 577; cacophony; words that break the teeth, words that dislocate the jaw; marinism^†.    ... show more

Roget 497: absurdity, absurdness etc. adj.; imbecility etc. 499; alogy^†, nonsense, utter nonsense; paradox, inconsistency; stultiloquy^†, stultiloquence^†; nugacity^†.    blunder, muddle, bull; Irishism^†, Hibernicism^†; slipslop^†; anticlimax, bathos; sophism etc. 477.    farce, galimathias^†, amphigouri^†, rhapsody; farrago etc. (disorder) 59; betise [Fr.]; extravagance, romance; sciamachy^†.    sell, pun, verbal quibble, macaronic^†.    jargon, fustian, twaddle, gibberish etc. (no meaning) 517; exaggeration etc. 549; moonshine, stuff; mare's nest, quibble, self-delusion.    vagary, tomfoolery, poppycock, mummery, monkey trick, boutade [Fr.], escapade.    ... show more

Dutch: Holle frasen, Bombast, bombast, gezwollenheid, lyrisme, pathos, retoriek
Polish: drętwa gadka, wielosłowie, woda, słowolejstwo, deklaratywność, gołosłowność, drętwa mowa, werbalizm, bicie piany, wodolejstwo, deklaratywizm, pustosłowie, gołosłowie ... show more

A strong cotton and linen fabric with a slight nap.

Polish: barchan