empty talk

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   loud and confused and empty talk

   “mere rhetoric”

   Synonymspalaverhot airempty wordsrhetoric

   Broadernonsense

Questions about empty talk

What does empty talk mean?

empty talk means "loud and confused and empty talk".

What is another word for empty talk?

Close synonyms include palaver, hot air, empty words, rhetoric. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is empty talk a common word?

empty talk is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.