blah
5
9.3
- noun
- /blɑː/
- Informal
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- After listening to his speech, I felt like it was just a lot of blah without any real substance.
They're just on there spewing out blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
- They're just on there spewing out blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
- None of this gender blah, blah, blah is real.
- One person does all the blah blah, and it felt fake.
- There's this, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah on.
- He crawled to slide blah, blah blah blah.
- Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
- They're not responsible for the content, blah, blah, blah.
- We get it, he's bad, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
- For the kids out there, this may seem like blah, blah blah, right?
- Like I just, I know I don't deserve you, blah, blah, blah.
- And so people say, well, you know, blah, blah, blah, fuck you.
- So and so is going to love this movie, blah, blah, blah blah blah.
Examples
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The meeting was filled with corporate blah that made it hard to focus on important issues.
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I have had a case of the blahs about just living life in general.
Blog text (22) -
For starters, consider if the blahs follow you after work.
Blog text (27) -
He'd been back from England a month, and the January blahs had by now caught up with him.
Fiction book (1992) -
I'm not insulting them, however, because they haven't had a truly blah game between them either.
Blog text (14) -
Nuggets struggled to overcome the case of the blahs in Phoenix.
Blog text (31) -
I found the article to be nothing more than blah, filled with jargon and vague statements.
Synonyms
265
7.0
Words that sound impressive but have little real meaning
102
3.1
Words or writing that have no value
28
7.7
A remark used so often that it sounds dull and gives no new idea
19
4.4
Soft, happy sounds a baby makes before speaking clearly
16
3.5
Unimportant words in writing or speech
11
8.4
Talk that is foolish and has little meaning
8
9.1
False or showy talk that tries to impress but has no real meaning
5
8.7
Silly talk about unimportant things
5
9.6
Talk or writing that is silly and not true
4
9.4
Speech or writing that uses large, showy words but has little real meaning
3
5.1
Talk that has no real meaning and is not useful
1
9.3
Meaningless words or writing that confuse people
1
4.3
Words that sound important but have no real meaning or action
1
8.0
Words that people say but do not mean
1
9.9
Talk that is silly or not important
Language that tries to sound important but has little meaning
Talk that is silly and not true
Boring, unimportant words or ideas in speech that have no real meaning
Continuous trivial talk that says nothing important
How Meaningful
Surface Forms
Etymology
Blah probably began as a simple sound people make to show boring or meaningless talk, like saying 'blah blah blah' to skip the rest. It is like the word blather, which means long, silly talk, so blah now means 'meaningless' or 'boring' speech.