Synonyms of blowhards

blowhards

noun

plural of blowhard

1

as in chatterers

a person who talks constantly

a politician who is the stereotypical backslapping blowhard

Synonyms & Similar Words

• chatterers
• magpies
• windbags
• gossips
• gossipers
• talkers
• babblers
• gasbags
• chatterboxes
• blabbermouths
• conversationalists
• jays
• gabblers
• prattlers
• cacklers
• blabbers
• conversers
• tattlers
• jabberers
• tattletales
• blatherers
• blatherskites
• motormouths
• discoursers
• talebearers

2

as in braggarts

someone who boasts

a blowhard who always had to act like she was better than anyone else

Synonyms & Similar Words

• braggarts
• cocks
• braggers
• blowers
• crackers
• boasters
• braggadocios
• brags
• swaggerers
• vaunters
• gascons
• cockalorums
• gasconaders
• blusterers
• self-promoters
• self-advertisers
• self-dramatizers

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of blowhards

Because his subject was surrounded by colorful and often unpredictable characters—alcoholics, neurotics, and blowhards—Perkins’s self-effacing qualities make for a dramatic contrast and a wealth of wild stories. — Boris Kachka, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026

Any resemblance to real-life megalomaniacal blowhards in positions of power are anything but coincidental. — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Sep. 2025

Or the skewering and scathing kind from social media, where everyone’s a target by armchair quarterback blowhards, including over four mixed starts at Arizona State in 2023. — Joe Davidosn, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025

Many of those findings will be contrary to the interests of the blowhards who, at least temporarily, control our nation, and so they may be suppressed for the moment. — Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025