Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
Any type of talk with little meaning; a message that seems to contain meaningful content but is actually vapid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, informal, plural, plural-normally
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
plural of empty word
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, plural
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noun
loud and confused and empty talk
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: palaver, hot air, empty talk, rhetoric
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum
History
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Across languages
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