What is another word for mere words?

Pronunciation: [mˈi͡ə wˈɜːdz] (IPA)

"Mere words" refers to language or speech that is considered to be insincere, superficial or unimportant. There are a variety of synonyms or alternative phrases that can be used to convey the same idea, including "empty promises", "hollow talk" or "meaningless rhetoric". Other options include "fluff", "hot air", "verbiage", "lip service" and "empty words". Each of these alternative phrases implies that the speaker is not truly committed to what they are saying, that their words lack substance or that they are exaggerating or using language purely for theatrical effect.

What are the hypernyms for Mere words?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Mere words

  • To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who normally has to describe only things outside himself.
    Melvin Calvin
  • My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.
    Frank R. Wolf
  • It's very easy to talk the talk. Many people even talk the walk, but only a few walk the walk. Action always speaks louder and clearer than mere words. Practice before you preach, and create solid living examples for others to follow - by your noteworthy actions instead of impressive quotes and preaching philosophies. Good luck!
    Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
  • I need your help. The abstruse nature of the subject requires not only concentrated reading, not alone clear understanding, but co-operation with the author. For that which could easily be made comprehensible by personal contact and demonstration, must of necessity depend on mere words and intellectual concepts. Many of the questions that may arise in your mind during or after reading of each chapter can best be answered through the practical application of the exercises prescribed herein. Unfortunately, there is no other way to co-operate: the technique of acting can never be properly understood without practicing it.
    Michael Chekhov
  • An ardent Jehovah's Witness once tried to convince me that if there were a God of love, he would certainly provide mankind with a reliable and infallible textbook for the guidance of conduct. I replied that no considerate God would destroy the human mind by making it so rigid and unadaptable as to depend upon one book, the Bible, for all the answers. For the use of words, and thus of a book, is to point beyond themselves to a world of life and experience that is not mere words or even ideas. Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
    Alan Watts

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