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All hooey synonyms

hoo·ey
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noun hooey

  • foolishness — resulting from or showing a lack of sense; ill-considered; unwise: a foolish action, a foolish speech.
  • fun — something that provides mirth or amusement: A picnic would be fun.
  • gibberish — meaningless or unintelligible talk or writing.
  • flighty — given to flights of fancy; capricious; frivolous.
  • inanity — lack of sense, significance, or ideas; silliness.
  • bunkum — If you say that something that has been said or written is bunkum, you mean that you think it is completely untrue or very stupid.
  • bananas — crazy (esp in the phrase go bananas)
  • garbage — discarded animal and vegetable matter, as from a kitchen; refuse.
  • absurdity — the quality or state of being absurd; nonsense
  • fatuity — complacent stupidity; foolishness.
  • bunk — A bunk is a bed that is fixed to a wall, especially in a ship or caravan.
  • baloney — If you say that an idea or statement is baloney, you disapprove of it and think it is foolish or wrong.
  • blather — If someone is blathering on about something, they are talking for a long time about something that you consider boring or unimportant.
  • bombast — Bombast is trying to impress people by saying things that sound impressive but have little meaning.
  • claptrap — If you describe something that someone says as claptrap, you mean that it is stupid or foolish although it may sound important.
  • babble — If someone babbles, they talk in a confused or excited way.
  • giddiness — affected with vertigo; dizzy.
  • imprudence — not prudent; lacking discretion; incautious; rash.
  • idiocy — utterly senseless or foolish behavior; a stupid or foolish act, statement, etc.: All this talk of zombies coming to attack us is pure idiocy.
  • drivel — saliva flowing from the mouth, or mucus from the nose; slaver.
  • bull — A bull is a male animal of the cow family.
  • balderdash — If you say that something that has been said or written is balderdash, you think it is completely untrue or very stupid.
  • irrationality — the quality or condition of being irrational.
  • hogwash — refuse given to hogs; swill.
  • folly — the state or quality of being foolish; lack of understanding or sense.
  • hot air — empty, exaggerated, or pretentious talk or writing: His report on the company's progress was just so much hot air.
  • ja — yes.
  • nonsense — words or language having little or no sense or meaning.
  • humbug — something intended to delude or deceive.
  • rubbish — worthless, unwanted material that is rejected or thrown out; debris; litter; trash.
  • twaddle — trivial, feeble, silly, or tedious talk or writing.
  • codswallop — If you describe something that someone has just said as codswallop, you mean that you think it is nonsense.
  • flightiness — The quality of being flighty.
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