hot air

Questions about hot air

What is another word for hot air?

Across its 2 senses, hot air has 4 distinct synonyms: palaver, empty words, empty talk, rhetoric. Each belongs to a specific meaning, listed on this page under the sense it serves.

What is the opposite of hot air?

WordNet records no antonym for hot air. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Why are the synonyms for hot air split into groups?

Because hot air carries 2 recorded senses and each has its own set of substitutes. A single flat list would put words from unrelated meanings side by side with nothing to tell them apart, which is exactly how a writer picks the wrong one. The grouping comes from WordNet's synsets, not from an editorial judgement of ours.

Where do the synonyms for hot air come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of hot air

• Full entry for hot airAll 2 senses, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for hot airWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.