windbagging
Talking without substance
Windbagging is talking at excessive length without saying much of substance.
The term derives from windbag, slang for a person who talks too much: He spent the whole meeting windbagging about his golf game.
The word emphasizes empty verbosity—lots of air, little content.
Veering off topic
- meanderingFollowing a winding course
- droningSustained monotonous sound
- going onIn the process
- prattlingSpeaking trivially at length
blathering · monologuing · tangent · circumlocution · maunder · discursive · unfocused · wandering
One who flaunts achievements
- blowhardBoastful empty talker
- boastingExcessive self-praise
- braggingExcessive self-praise
- swaggeringOstentatiously self-assured manner
vainglorious · self-aggrandizing · puffery · grandstanding · showboating · egotistical · self-important · pompous
digression
Veering off topic
- meanderingFollowing a winding course
- droningSustained monotonous sound
- going onIn the process
prattling · blathering · monologuing · tangent · circumlocution · maunder · discursive · unfocused · wandering · roundabout
braggart
One who flaunts achievements
swaggering · vainglorious · self-aggrandizing · puffery · grandstanding · showboating · egotistical · self-important · pompous · arrogant
hot air
Meaningless boastful talk
- blusterLoud, empty boasting
- balderdashSenseless talk or writing
- hogwashFoolish or untrue talk
drivel · twaddle · nonsense · gibberish · claptrap · poppycock · rubbish · bunk · hokum · malarkey
windbaggingconciseness
Quality of being brief
brevity · succinctness · terseness · pithiness · getting to the point
windbaggingmodesty
Absence of vanity
understatement · self-effacement · humility · reticence · reserve
windbag, windbags, wind, winds, winded, winding, windy, windier, windiest