bloviates
Talks without substance
Bloviates means to speak or write at length in a pompous, inflated way.
The word suggests someone who talks too much about things they don't fully understand, or who uses many words to say little: The senator bloviated for an hour without answering the question.
The noun is blowhard; the verbal noun is bloviation.
Excessively inflated language
- grandiloquentPretentiously elevated in speech
- self-importantExaggerating one's own significance
- vaingloriousBoastfully proud, ostentatiously so
- highfalutinAffectedly superior or fancy
pretentious · grandiose · overbearing · pontificating · imperious · supercilious · condescending · patronizing
Excessively wordy, tediously so
- prolixExcessively wordy in speech
- ramblingLong-winded and unfocused
- discursiveTending to wander topically
- digressiveTending to stray topically
circumlocutory · periphrastic · wordy · diffuse · meandering · windy · droning · pleonastic
Extended angry speech
- harangueAggressive lengthy scolding
- diatribeBitter, prolonged verbal attack
- fulminationFierce verbal denunciation
- invectiveAbusive denunciation
vituperation · declamation · speechifying · sermonizing · lecturing · moralizing · denouncing · excoriating
bombastic
Excessively inflated language
- grandiloquentPretentiously elevated in speech
- self-importantExaggerating one's own significance
- vaingloriousBoastfully proud, ostentatiously so
highfalutin · pretentious · grandiose · overbearing · pontificating · imperious · supercilious · condescending · patronizing · snobbish
long-winded
Excessively wordy, tediously so
- prolixExcessively wordy in speech
- ramblingLong-winded and unfocused
- discursiveTending to wander topically
digressive · circumlocutory · periphrastic · wordy · diffuse · meandering · windy · droning · pleonastic · tautological
tirade
Extended angry speech
- harangueAggressive lengthy scolding
- diatribeBitter, prolonged verbal attack
- fulminationFierce verbal denunciation
invective · vituperation · declamation · speechifying · sermonizing · lecturing · moralizing · denouncing · excoriating · lambasting
bloviatesgets to the point
Addresses core matter directly
summarizes · abbreviates · condenses · clams up · shuts up
bloviatesinforms
Communicates facts to
makes a point · elucidates · illuminates · enlightens · cuts to the chase