Synonyms for fustian
- noun
- adjective
Most common
blah rant clap-trap bombast purple prose grandiloquence non-sense
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Bombast
bombast, rant, clap-trap, blah, twaddle, balderdash, rodomontade, rubbish, fudge, jargon, bosh, drivel, humbug, jabber, blather, prattle, palaver, gibber, flummery, galimatias, skimble-skamble, highfalutin dated
2. Purple prose — inflated, pompous, or pretentious speech or writing; bombast; also (archaic), incoherent or unintelligible…
purple prose, grandiloquence, magniloquence, aureation, bombard phrase dated
Other
Adjective
Definitions
- n. 1
Inflated, pompous, or pretentious speech or writing; bombast; also (archaic), incoherent or unintelligible speech or writing; gibberish, nonsense.
- n. 2
Originally, a kind of coarse fabric made from cotton and flax; now, a kind of coarse twilled cotton, or cotton and linen, stuff with a short pile and often dyed a dull colour, which is chiefly prepared for menswear.
- adj. 1
Made out of fustian (noun sense 1).
Forms
- Plural
- fustians → bombasts, rants, blahs, twaddles…
Example sentences
- blah We drank some booze and started to blah, blah, blah.
- rant It soon became clear the rant was directed at her.
- bombast Tom was full of bombast and pride until a dart flew straight into his forehead.
By length
- 4 letters
- blah1, rant1, bosh1
- 5 letters
- fudge1
- 6 letters
- jargon2, drivel2, humbug2, jabber, gibber
- 7 letters
- rubbish2, bombast2, blather2, prattle2, palaver, twaddle2
- 8 letters
- flummery
- 9 letters
- bombastic3, rigmarole, aureation
- 10 letters
- balderdash3, rigamarole, galimatias
- 11 letters
- highfalutin4, rodomontade
- 12 letters
- magniloquent
- 13 letters
- magniloquence
- 14 letters
- grandiloquence
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (jargon2 = 2 syllables).