hot air

Questions about hot air

What does hot air mean?

hot air means "air that has been heated and tends to rise". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for hot air?

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

hot air is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.