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.
  •claptrap (noun)
  • fustian,
  • blah,
  • bombast,
  • rant.
  •flatulence (noun)
  • flatulence,
  • empty talk.
  •foolishness (noun)
  • silliness,
  • horse feathers,
  • imbecility.
  •gibberish (noun)
  • blah-blah,
  • jabberwocky.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • bilge,
  • applesauce,
  • piffle,
  • malarkey,
  • baloney.
  •
  • magniloquence,
  • blather,
  • rigmarole,
  • twaddle,
  • garbage.
  •
  • rubbish,
  • drivel.
  •Other relevant words:
  • gossip,
  • gab,
  • rhetoric,
  • raving,
  • drool,
  • sophistry,
  • Elenchus,
  • hokum,
  • Blague,
  • empty words,
  • mouth,
  • flannel,
  • flapdoodle,
  • hum,
  • song and dance,
  • quodlibet,
  • gammon,
  • gibber,
  • traveler,
  • nerts,
  • argument,
  • horseshit,
  • empty,
  • truck,
  • blatherskite,
  • Hysteron Proteron,
  • Quillet,
  • Elench,
  • fabrication,
  • Humbuggery,
  • romance,
  • razzmatazz,
  • cobblers,
  • chit-chat,
  • delusory,
  • braggadocio,
  • apple sauce,
  • jargon,
  • weak point,
  • jiggery-pokery,
  • swill,
  • jabber,
  • rodomontade,
  • trumpery,
  • punk,
  • sell,
  • folderol,
  • tripe,
  • delusive,
  • bullshit,
  • deceptive,
  • slush,
  • Gongorism,
  • Vapouring,
  • Flam,
  • stage effect,
  • fallacy,
  • feeble,
  • paralogism,
  • chaff,
  • nut,
  • logical fallacy,
  • clack,
  • line,
  • quibble,
  • fabricated,
  • prattle,
  • skimble-skamble,
  • bladder,
  • Bibble-babble,
  • counterfeit,
  • fictitious,
  • gabble,
  • illusive,
  • tosh,
  • wind,
  • ranting,
  • bs,
  • litter,
  • muck,
  • fiddle-faddle,
  • blarney,
  • non sequitur,
  • Petitio Principii,
  • hokeypokey,
  • Babblement,
  • begging the question,
  • fiddlesticks,
  • stupidity,
  • Galimatias,
  • hoke,
  • cackle,
  • abstract,
  • circular argument,
  • babble,
  • speech,
  • harangue,
  • fraudulent,
  • hyperbole,
  • rattle,
  • bragging,
  • prattling,
  • invention,
  • Antilogy,
  • palaver,
  • fudge,
  • pomposity,
  • humbug,
  • boloney,
  • double-talk,
  • deceitful,
  • waffle,
  • vaporing,
  • nuts,
  • fable,
  • Puffery,
  • crapola,
  • moonshine,
  • groundless,
  • mockery,
  • verbiage,
  • Bavardage,
  • solecism,
  • Twattle,
  • waffling,
  • Philosophism,
  • subterfuge,
  • illusory,
  • buncombe,
  • canard,
  • hocus-pocus,
  • Beans,
  • coup de theatre,
  • folly,
  • fairy tale,
  • fake,
  • falderal,
  • grandiosity,
  • codswallop,
  • imagination,
  • pretentiousness,
  • con,
  • blither,
  • boasting,
  • sophism,
  • trumped up story,
  • subtlety,
  • blabber,
  • absurdity,
  • unreal,
  • patter,
  • blether,
  • fiction,
  • gobbledygook,
  • balls,
  • Stultiloquence,
  • wish-wash,
  • hoodoo,
  • gimcrackery,
  • false,
  • amphigory,
  • formal fallacy,
  • argumentum ad hominem,
  • blustering,
  • tour de force,
  • quirk,
  • changeable,
  • Fiddledeedee,
  • gasconade,
  • idle talk,
  • cant,
  • rigamarole,
  • fictive,
  • inconsistency,
  • crock,
  • taradiddle,
  • chatter,
  • Gibble-gabble,
  • chic,
  • shave,
  • talk,
  • fantasy,
  • frippery,
  • insincere,
  • prate,
  • flimflam,
  • gas,
  • erroneous,
  • bluster,
  • fiddle,
  • gash,
  • hot air.

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.