windbaggery
Pompous hot air
Windbaggery is the practice of talking at length without saying much of substance—the characteristic behavior of a windbag.
The word emphasizes pompous, inflated speech rather than mere verbosity: The senator's windbaggery lasted forty minutes and said nothing.
It carries contempt for speakers who mistake volume for insight.
Tedious lengthiness in speech
- wordinessExcessive use of language
- loquaciousnessExcessive inclination to chatter
- garrulityExcessive, tedious talking
- circumlocutionIndirect, wordy expression
rambling · logorrhea · long-windedness · redundancy · pleonasm · discursiveness · diffuseness · expansiveness
Exaggerated sense of significance
- pontificationOpinionated lengthy speech
- pufferyOverblown self-promotion
- braggadocioVain, empty self-promotion
- swaggerConfident, boastful manner
airs · pretentiousness · conceit · smugness · superciliousness · condescension · egotism · preening
Pretentious hollow language
- magniloquenceBoastful, elevated language
- fustianPretentious, inflated language
- purple proseOverly elaborate, emotional writing
- turgiditySwollen or inflated state
highfalutin · florid · grandiosity · overblown · sesquipedalian · ornate · flowery · overwrought
Unchangingly dull
- wearisomeCausing fatigue through monotony
- tiresomeCausing boredom or annoyance
- dullLacking edge or interest
- mind-numbingExtremely tedious or monotonous
soporific · dreary · yawn-inducing · uninteresting · plodding · interminable · repetitive · exhausting
prolixity
Tedious lengthiness in speech
- wordinessExcessive use of language
- loquaciousnessExcessive inclination to chatter
- garrulityExcessive, tedious talking
circumlocution · rambling · logorrhea · long-windedness · redundancy · pleonasm · discursiveness · diffuseness · expansiveness · meandering
self-importance
Exaggerated sense of significance
- pontificationOpinionated lengthy speech
- pufferyOverblown self-promotion
- braggadocioVain, empty self-promotion
swagger · airs · pretentiousness · conceit · smugness · superciliousness · condescension · egotism · preening · soapboxing
bombast
Pretentious hollow language
- magniloquenceBoastful, elevated language
- fustianPretentious, inflated language
- purple proseOverly elaborate, emotional writing
turgidity · highfalutin · florid · grandiosity · overblown · sesquipedalian · ornate · flowery · overwrought · affected
monotonous
Unchangingly dull
- wearisomeCausing fatigue through monotony
- tiresomeCausing boredom or annoyance
- dullLacking edge or interest
mind-numbing · soporific · dreary · yawn-inducing · uninteresting · plodding · interminable · repetitive · exhausting · insufferable
- blatherbabble, balderdash, baloney, blarney, blather
- bombastbombast, grandiloquence, magniloquence, pomposity, fustian
windbaggerybrevity
Shortness of expression
conciseness · terseness · succinctness · laconicism · pithiness
windbaggerysubstance
Physical material with mass
meaningfulness · profundity · depth · weightiness · gravitas
windbaggerystraight talk
Honest, direct communication
directness · candor · forthrightness · plainness · unaffectedness