Synonyms for doublespeak
- absurd
- empty
- futile
- hollow
- inconsequential
- insignificant
- pointless
- senseless
- trivial
- unimportant
- useless
- vague
- worthless
- aimless
- blank
- doesn't cut it
- double-talk
- feckless
- fustian
- good-for-nothing
- hot air
- inane
- insubstantial
- nonsensical
- nothing
- nugatory
- purportless
- purposeless
- trifling
- unmeaning
- unpurposed
- vacant
- vain
- valueless
- vapid
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Antonyms for doublespeak
- certain
- consequential
- fruitful
- full
- important
- meaningful
- productive
- profitable
- rational
- reasonable
- sensible
- significant
- substantial
- useful
- valuable
- wise
- worthwhile
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WORD ORIGIN
1957, from double (adj.) + speak, coined on model of doublethink in Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" (the language in that book was Newspeak).
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR DOUBLESPEAK
buzzword
nounpopular word or phrasebuzzwords
nounpopular word or phrasedissemble
verbdisguise, pretend- affect
- camouflage
- cloak
- conceal
- counterfeit
- cover
- cover up
- dissimulate
- double-talk
- doublespeak
- dress up
- fake
- falsify
- feign
- four-flush
- hide
- let on
- make like
- mask
- pass
- play possum
- pussyfoot
- put on a false front
- put on a front
- put on an act
- put up a front
- put up a smoke screen
- sham
- shroud
- shuck and jive
- signify
- simulate
- stonewall
- whitewash
dissembling
verbdisguise, pretend- affect
- camouflage
- cloak
- conceal
- counterfeit
- cover
- cover up
- dissimulate
- double-talk
- doublespeak
- dress up
- fake
- falsify
- feign
- four-flush
- hide
- let on
- make like
- mask
- pass
- play possum
- pussyfoot
- put on a false front
- put on a front
- put on an act
- put up a front
- put up a smoke screen
- sham
- shroud
- shuck and jive
- signify
- simulate
- stonewall
- whitewash
double talk
nountalk intended to confusejargon
nounspecialized language; dialect- abracadabra
- argot
- balderdash
- banality
- bombast
- bunk
- buzzwords
- cant
- cliché
- colloquialism
- commonplace term
- doublespeak
- drivel
- fustian
- gibberish
- hackneyed term
- idiom
- insipidity
- lexicon
- lingo
- mumbo jumbo
- neologism
- newspeak
- nonsense
- overused term
- palaver
- parlance
- patois
- patter
- rigmarole
- shoptalk
- slang
- slanguage
- speech
- stale language
- street talk
- tongue
- trite language
- twaddle
- usage
- vernacular
- vocabulary
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