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EMPTY TALK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does empty talk mean? 

EMPTY TALK (noun)
  The noun EMPTY TALK has 1 sense:

1. loud and confused and empty talkplay

  Familiarity information: EMPTY TALK used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EMPTY TALK (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Loud and confused and empty talk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

empty talk; empty words; hot air; palaver; rhetoric

Context example:

mere rhetoric

Hypernyms ("empty talk" is a kind of...):

bunk; hokum; meaninglessness; nonsense; nonsensicality (a message that seems to convey no meaning)


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