empty words

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   loud and confused and empty talk

   “mere rhetoric”

   Synonymspalaverhot airempty talkrhetoric

   Broadernonsense

Questions about empty words

What does empty words mean?

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

What is another word for empty words?

Close synonyms include palaver, hot air, empty talk, 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 words a common word?

empty words 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.