trumpery

Other forms of trumpery

plural

trumperies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about trumpery

What does trumpery mean?

trumpery means "nonsensical talk or writing". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in trumpery?

trumpery has 3 syllables: trum-pe-ry. The stress falls on "trum".

What is another word for trumpery?

Close synonyms include folderol, rubbish, tripe, trash, wish-wash. 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 trumpery a common word?

trumpery 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.