Synonyms for Hokum:

• n.

  •
  • invention,
  • a tissue of lies,
  • white lie,
  • lie,
  • misinformation,
  • half-truth,
  • falsehood,
  • disinformation,
  • untruth,
  • fabrication.
  •applesauce (noun)
  • nonsense,
  • fudge,
  • pulp,
  • malarkey.
  •banality (noun)
  • plate,
  • trivia,
  • saw,
  • truism,
  • adage,
  • buzzword,
  • triviality.
  •candy (noun)
  • jawbreaker,
  • bonbon,
  • sweets,
  • sweetmeat,
  • jawbreakers,
  • sweetmeats,
  • sweet,
  • Confit,
  • confectionery.
  •communication (noun)
  • hokum,
  • bunk,
  • meaninglessness,
  • nonsensicality.
  •confection (noun)
  • candy.
  •conjuring trick (noun)
  • smoke and mirrors.
  •deception (noun)
  • dirt,
  • legerdemain,
  • cunning,
  • beguilement,
  • deceitfulness,
  • imposition,
  • trumpery,
  • fraud,
  • cheat,
  • blarney,
  • Double dealing,
  • deceptiveness,
  • deceit,
  • boondoggle,
  • mendacity,
  • lying,
  • hypocrisy,
  • insincerity,
  • cunnings,
  • dupery,
  • circumvention,
  • pretense,
  • trickiness,
  • prevarication,
  • craftiness,
  • guile,
  • fraudulence,
  • fast one,
  • cozenage,
  • trickery,
  • snow job,
  • dissimulation,
  • boondoggles,
  • beguilements,
  • treachery,
  • betrayal,
  • duplicity,
  • double-dealing,
  • juggling,
  • Defraudation,
  • flimflam,
  • treason,
  • sophism,
  • equivocation.
  •double Dutch (noun)
  • choctaw,
  • babble,
  • greek,
  • gibberish,
  • mumbo jumbo,
  • gobbledygook.
  •flattery (noun)
  • flummery,
  • smoke,
  • eulogy,
  • adulation,
  • fawning,
  • palaver,
  • stroke,
  • jive,
  • bootlicking,
  • approbation,
  • ingratiations,
  • flattering,
  • eyewash,
  • blandishment,
  • sycophancy,
  • snow,
  • obsequiousness,
  • plaudits,
  • jives,
  • gallantry,
  • cajolery,
  • tribute,
  • eyewashes,
  • truckling,
  • encomium,
  • mush,
  • laud,
  • incense,
  • commendation,
  • Puffery,
  • unctuousness,
  • fulsomeness,
  • pretty speech,
  • soft-soap,
  • Toadyism,
  • applause,
  • gratification,
  • sycophancies,
  • servility,
  • soft words,
  • ingratiation,
  • sweet talk,
  • Cajoleries,
  • honeyed words.
  •hogwash (noun)
  • balderdash,
  • debris,
  • bull,
  • refuse,
  • foolishness,
  • bs,
  • twaddle,
  • hooey,
  • poppycock,
  • rubbish,
  • absurdity,
  • drivel,
  • ridiculousness,
  • trash,
  • rot,
  • baloney.
  •platitude (noun)
  • monotony,
  • proverb,
  • platitudes,
  • motto,
  • flatness,
  • evenness,
  • commonplace,
  • old story,
  • verbiage,
  • stereotype,
  • potboilers,
  • vapidity,
  • tag,
  • triteness,
  • trite remark,
  • hackneyed saying,
  • insipidity,
  • bromide,
  • shibboleth,
  • inanity,
  • boiler plate,
  • potboiler.
  •sentimentality (noun)
  • bathos,
  • schmaltz.
  •smoke and mirrors (noun)
  • sleight of hand.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • banality,
  • boiler,
  • chestnut,
  • content,
  • corn,
  • deception,
  • flattery,
  • hogwash,
  • message,
  • platitude,
  • sentimentality,
  • substance,
  • Choctaws,
  • subject matter,
  • Prosaicism,
  • Prosaism,
  • Corns,
  • chestnuts,
  • boilers,
  • BSS,
  • Greeks,
  • dullsville,
  • horsefeathers,
  • bullshit,
  • crap,
  • trite phrase,
  • familiar tune,
  • high camp,
  • old chestnut,
  • old saw,
  • artful deception.

Antonyms for Hokum:

• n.

  • banality
    nuance, original saying, coinage.
  • deception
    honesty, forthrightness, truthfulness, sincerity, openness, honor, frankness, truth, faithfulness, trustworthiness, uprightness, loyalty.
  • flattery
    condemnation, denunciation, criticism, insult, castigation, belittlement, offense, blame.
  • hogwash
    property, assets, sense, possessions.

Hypernym for Hokum:

• n.

  • communication
    drool, balderdash, bosh, nonsense verse, taradiddle, hooey, unintelligibility, tarradiddle, empty words, crock, gibberish, rigamarole, tommyrot, absurdity, incoherency, humbug, buzzword, rigmarole, cant, poppycock, Fal La, mummery, fiddle-faddle, baloney, amphigory, gibber, boloney, ridiculousness, jabberwocky, stuff, schmegegge, rhetoric, incoherence, twaddle, bilgewater, cobblers, Fa La, palaver, hot air, stuff and nonsense, absurdness, flummery, shmegegge, empty talk, tosh, piffle.

Hyponym for Hokum:

• n.

  • communication
    message, content, substance, subject matter.