Vaporing

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Foolishly bombastic; boastful.
  • n. Boastful or bombastic talk or behavior: "All his . . . dreams of fame were the vaporings of a shoddy aesthete without talent” ( Thomas Wolfe).
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  • v. Present participle of vapor.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Talking idly; boasting; vaunting.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of bragging or blustering; ostentatious or windy talk.
  • Vaunting; swaggering; blustering; given to brag or bluster: as, vaporing talk; a vaporing debater.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an instance of boastful talk
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    boast    self-praise    jactitation    boasting   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    boasting    vaunting   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    quoter    miscall    re-examination    mawkishness    self-advertisement   
     
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