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Definition: Empty Words |
Empty WordsNoun1. Loud and confused and empty talk; "mere rhetoric". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Empty WordsSynonyms: empty talk (n), hot air (n), palaver (n), rhetoric (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Untruth | Profession, empty words; Judas kiss; (hypocrisy); disguise; (mask). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Empty Words |
| Specialty definitions using "empty words": Parolles. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Lays of Mystery Imagination and Humour | Carroll, Lewis | One showed a vain and noisy prig, That shouted empty words and big At him that nodded in a wig. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Translations for "empty words"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Japanese Kanji | 空念仏 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | そらね"ぶつ, からね"ぶつ. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | emptyay ordsway.(various references) | |
Turkish | laf (say, spiel, talk, word, words), boş lâf (applesauce, babble, balderdash, bosh, bunkum, comment, falderal, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, flimflam, flubdub, flummery, froth, fudge, gab, galimatias, garbage, gas, guff, haver, hokum, hooey, hot air, inanity, jazz, lark, moonshine, palaver, poppycock, punk, routine, small talk, talky-talk, tripe, vaporings, vapourings, waffle, wind, wishy-wash), önemsiz sözler (small beer, small change). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-m-o-p-r-s-t-w-y" | |
-3 letters: deports, destroy, deworms, modesty, powders, powdery, powters, prowest, redtops, sported, stomped, stomper, stormed, strowed, stroyed, tromped, trompes, worsted. | |
-4 letters: deport, depots, despot, deworm, dopers, doters, dowers, dowery, dowser, dropsy, drowse, drowsy, dryest, metros, modest, mopeds, mopers, mopery, mowers, myopes, osprey, oyster, pedros, poetry, ported, posted, poster, powder, powers, powter, presto, proems, prosed. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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