Definition for Claptrap:

• Language, sentiment, meant to catch applause; showy.

Synonyms for Claptrap:

• n.

  •
  • stuff,
  • Double Dutch,
  • ravings,
  • gobbledegook,
  • spiel.
  •
  • style,
  • words,
  • plain.
  •
  • poppycock,
  • idiocy,
  • tomfoolery,
  • trash,
  • knowledge.
  •balderdash (noun)
  • flummeries.
  •blah (noun)
  • blah.
  •bombast (noun)
  • bombast.
  •bull (noun)
  • bunkums.
  •bunk (noun)
  • horsefeatherses.
  •claptrap (noun)
  • rant,
  • fustian.
  •crap (noun)
  • idiocies.
  •flatulence (noun)
  • windiness,
  • empty talk,
  • idle words,
  • flatulence.
  •foolishness (noun)
  • irresponsibility,
  • Fooleries,
  • absurdness,
  • foolery,
  • carryings-on,
  • imbecility,
  • silliness,
  • horse feathers,
  • carrying-on,
  • witlessness,
  • dumb trick,
  • fool trick,
  • unwiseness.
  •gibberish (noun)
  • Hocuspocus,
  • blah-blah,
  • jabberwocky.
  •grandiloquence (noun)
  • boastfuls.
  •hooey (noun)
  • JA,
  • Jas.
  •imbecility (noun)
  • zaniness.
  •rot (noun)
  • stuff nonsense,
  • stuff nonsenses,
  • stuff and nonsenses.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • bilge,
  • applesauce,
  • piffle,
  • malarkey,
  • baloney.
  •
  • magniloquence,
  • blather,
  • rigmarole,
  • twaddle,
  • garbage.
  •
  • rubbish,
  • drivel.

Paraphrases for Claptrap:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    nonsense.

Antonyms for Claptrap:

• n.

  • empty talk
    sense.
  • Other antonyms:
    rationality, discernment, reasonableness, levelheadedness, sensibleness, horse sense, judgment, wisdom, reasonability, common sense.

Claptrap Sentence Examples:

• One by one drop off the truisms, and the Grundyisms, and the pedantries, and all the stillborn claptrap of the marketplace sloughs off.

• At tea some one used the word " claptrap."