bloviator
Long-winded speaker
A bloviator is someone who talks at length in a pompous, self-important way without saying much of substance.
The word carries contempt for windbags who mistake volume for wisdom: cable news bloviators, political bloviators.
From the verb bloviate, which emerged in American English as mock-formal slang for empty speechifying.
Skilled public speaker
- demagogueManipulative populist leader
- speechifierOne who orates
- pontificatorOne who opines pompously
- sermonizerOne who preaches tediously
soapbox · lecturing · harangue · declaiming · filibuster · monologue · tirade · diatribe
Excessively wordy, tediously so
- ramblingLong-winded and unfocused
- garrulousTediously long-winded
- loquaciousInclined to talk much
- prolixExcessively wordy in speech
wordy · windbag · circumlocutory · diffuse · discursive · voluble · digressive · grandiloquent
Trivial, prolonged speech
- blatherFoolish, pointless chatter
- drivelSenseless, silly talk
- twaddleTrivial, foolish talk
- bombastPretentious hollow language
braggadocio · puffery · balderdash · hogwash · claptrap · gas · guff · wind
Pretentiously impressive in scale
- self-importantExaggerating one's own significance
- arrogantExcessively high self-regard
- bombasticExcessively inflated language
- pontificalDogmatically self-important
vainglorious · overbearing · supercilious · condescending · ostentatious · imperious · haughty · egotistical
orator
Skilled public speaker
- demagogueManipulative populist leader
- speechifierOne who orates
- pontificatorOne who opines pompously
sermonizer · soapbox · lecturing · harangue · declaiming · filibuster · monologue · tirade · diatribe · grandstanding
long-winded
Excessively wordy, tediously so
- ramblingLong-winded and unfocused
- garrulousTediously long-winded
- loquaciousInclined to talk much
prolix · wordy · windbag · circumlocutory · diffuse · discursive · voluble · digressive · grandiloquent · turgid
prattle
Trivial, prolonged speech
bombast · braggadocio · puffery · balderdash · hogwash · claptrap · gas · guff · wind · bunkum
grandiose
Pretentiously impressive in scale
- self-importantExaggerating one's own significance
- arrogantExcessively high self-regard
- bombasticExcessively inflated language
pontifical · vainglorious · overbearing · supercilious · condescending · ostentatious · imperious · haughty · egotistical · presumptuous
bloviatorminimalist
One favoring bare essentials
straight shooter · strong silent type · man of few words · woman of few words · epigrammatist
bloviatorexpert
Highly skilled practitioner
authority · sage · scholar · deep thinker · savant
bloviatorlistener
One who attends aurally
strong silent type · wallflower · shrinking violet · introvert