Synonyms for vaporing
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : vey-per-ing |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈveɪ pər ɪŋ |
Top 10 synonyms for vaporing Other synonyms for the word vaporing
- airs
- attract attention
- be metaphysical
- blow one's own horn
- blow smoke
- bluster
- boast
- brag
- brazen
- browbeat
- bully
- chatter
- cock-a-doodle-doo
- con
- conclude
- congratulate oneself
- cow
- crow
- declaim
- derive
- discern
- discover
- domineer
- establish
- exaggerate
- expatiate
- exult
- fake
- flatter oneself
- flaunt
- flourish
- gasconade
- give a good account of oneself
- glory
- go on
- grandstand
- harangue
- hold forth
- hug oneself
- hypothesize
- induce
- jive
- lay on thick
- observe
- orate
- philosophize
- pontificate
- postulate
- prate
- preen
- pretensions
- psych
- puff
- ramble
- rant
- rave
- ride the high horse
- roar
- roister
- sermonize
- shoot
- shoot off one's mouth
- shovel
- show off
- showboat
- shuck
- sling
- sound off
- speculate
- speechify
- spellbind
- spiel
- stay in the clouds
- storm
- strut
- swank
- swell
- talk big
- theorize
- triumph
- vain pretensions
- vapor
- vaporing
- vaunt
- yell
Définition of vaporing
Origin :- late 14c., from Anglo-French vapour, from Latin vaporem (nominative vapor) "exhalation, steam, heat," of unknown origin. Vapors "fit of fainting, hysteria, etc." is 1660s, from medieval notion of "exhalations" from the stomach or other organs affecting the brain.
- As in delusions of grandeur : noun overestimation of one's own importance
- As in spout : verb talk forcefully
- As in bluster : verb bully, intimidate
- As in boast : verb brag
- As in generalize : verb make a sweeping assumption, statement
- Sir, there has been a good deal of vaporing on this subject.
- Extract from : « American Eloquence, Volume III. (of 4) » by Various
- After all the vaporing, I have no expectation of a serious war.
- Extract from : « The Life of Albert Gallatin » by Henry Adams
- The morning was hurrying by and this vaporing was a hindrance to be shuffled off.
- Extract from : « Rose MacLeod » by Alice Brown
- She saw herself as the most useless, vaporing and purblind of mortals.
- Extract from : « Septimus » by William J. Locke
- Ralph, thy news has stirred me into vaporing, and the man who built the Orb mill is prating like a child.
- Extract from : « Lorimer of the Northwest » by Harold Bindloss
- Never was so good an opportunity for my countrymen to turn out and crush that vaporing, blustering bully to atoms.
- Extract from : « Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution » by John Adams
- "Gifford was brought up in a bad school—a vaporing fellow, not true to any of his obligations," said Mr. Oliver Smith.
- Extract from : « The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax » by Harriet Parr
- But these South Carolina economists are better at vaporing than at calculation.
- Extract from : « The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V » by James Russell Lowell
- His teachings were but vaporing talk to her small mind and to those of many of the people.
- Extract from : « Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) » by Charles Morris
Antonyms for vaporing
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