SG Heritage Dictionary

Unmeaningness Roget’s Thesaurus §517

N. meaninglessness, unmeaningness, scrabble, empty sound, dead letter, vox et praeterea nihil, "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing", "sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal." nonsense, utter nonsense, gibberish, jargon, jabber, mere words, hocus-pocus, fustian, rant, bombast, balderdash, palaver, flummery, verbiage, babble, baverdage, baragouin, platitude, niaiserie, inanity, flap-doodle, rigmarole, rodomontade, truism, nugae canorae, twaddle, twattle, fudge, trash, garbage, humbug, poppy-cock, stuff, stuff and nonsense, bosh, rubbish, moonshine, wish-wash, fiddle-faddle, absurdity, vagueness, boilerplate

V. mean nothing, be unmeaning, twaddle, quibble, scrabble

Adj. unmeaning, meaningless, senseless, nonsensical, void of sense, inexpressive, unexpressive, vacant, not significant, insignificant, trashy, washy, trumpery, trivial, fiddle-faddle, twaddling, quibbling, unmeant, not expressed, tacit, inexpressible, undefinable, incommunicable

Boasting Roget’s Thesaurus §884

N. boasting, boast, vaunt, crake|, pretense, pretensions, puff, puffery, flourish, fanfaronade, gasconade, blague, bluff, gas*, highfalutin, highfaluting, hot air, spread-eagleism, brag, braggardism, bravado, bunkum, buncombe, jactitation, jactancy, bounce, venditation|, vaporing, rodomontade, bombast, fine talking, tall talk, magniloquence, teratology|, heroics, chauvinism, exaggeration, vanity, vox et praeterea nihil, much cry and little wool, brutum fulmen, exultation, gloriation|, glorification, flourish of trumpets, triumph, boaster, braggart, braggadocio, gascon, fanfaron, pretender, soi-disant, blower, bluffer, foxy quiller, blusterer, charlatan, jack-pudding, trumpeter, puppy

V. boast, make a boast of, brag, vaunt, puff, show off, flourish, crake|, crack, trumpet, strut, swagger, vapor, blague, blow, four- flush *, bluff, exult, crow, crow over, neigh, chuckle, triumph, throw up one's cap, talk big, se faire valoir, faire claquer son fouet, take merit to oneself, make a merit of, sing io triumphe, holloa before one is out of the wood

Adj. boasting, magniloquent, flaming, thrasonic, stilted, gasconading, braggart, boastful, pretentious, soi-disant, vainglorious, highfalutin, highfaluting, spread-eagle, elate, elated, jubilant, triumphant, exultant, in high feather, flushed, flushed with victory, cock-a-hoop, on stilts, vaunted

Adv. vauntingly

Phr. "let the galled jade wince", facta non verba