Difference between Rant and Claptrap

RANT vs CLAPTRAP: NOUN

Pompous or pretentious talk or writing
Angry, emotionally charged, or tediously negative speech or writing.
An example of such speech or writing.
Wild or uproarious merriment.
Boisterous, empty declamation; fierce or high-sounding language without much meaning or dignity of thought; bombast.
A ranting speech; a bombastic or boisterous utterance.
The act of frolicking; a frolic; a boisterous merrymaking, generally accompanied with dancing.
A loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion
High-sounding language, without importance or dignity of thought; boisterous, empty declamation; bombast.
A criticism done by ranting.
A wild, incoherent, emotional articulation.
A kind of dance, or the music to which it was danced.

Pompous or pretentious talk or writing
Pretentious, insincere, or empty language.
A contrivance for clapping in theaters.
Figuratively, an artifice or device to elicit applause or gain popularity; deceptive show or pretense.
A trick or device to gain applause, especially pretentious but empty rhetoric; humbug.

Contrived for the purpose of making a show, or gaining applause; deceptive; unreal.

To speak or write in an angry or emotionally charged manner; rave.
To express at length a complaint or negative opinion.
To utter or express by ranting.
To rave in violent, high-sounding, or extravagant language, without dignity of thought; to be noisy, boisterous, and bombastic in talk or declamation.

To speak or declaim violently and with little sense; rave: used of both the matter and the manner of utterance, or of either alone: as, a ranting preacher or actor.
To be jovial or jolly in a noisy way; make noisy mirth.

Diatribe, Insense, Declaim, Fume, Pontificate, Rabbit on, Mouth off, Fustian, Blah, Rave, Bombast, Spout, Jabber, Claptrap, Harangue

Balderdash, Gobbledygook, Bullshit, Mumbo jumbo, Blather, Twaddle, Drivel, Pitch, Rot, Dung, Nonsense, Blah, Fustian, Rant, Bombast

Invective, Drivel, Blather, Tirade, Diatribe, Fume, Pontificate, Fustian, Blah, Rave, Bombast, Spout, Jabber, Claptrap, Harangue

Piffle, Balderdash, Gobbledygook, Bullshit, Mumbo jumbo, Blather, Drivel, Pitch, Rot, Dung, Nonsense, Blah, Fustian, Rant, Bombast

First, I try my best not to rant.
If you need to vent, rant, scream, cry.
Intermediate DJ course with UKG artist Ollie Rant.
Things They Changed In The Reboot Screen Rant.
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But this is not a rant about functional programming; this is a rant about Swift.
Confederation-of-Zimbabwe-Industries You can rant and rant but the fact of the matter is that people voted for ZANU PF and not your preferred MDC.
Posted by Daneric at 11:06 PM View Comments Links to this post Another Sunday rant to followup somewhat to my earlier rant.
Oh dear, I've answered a rant with a rant.

And bhakths fall for this claptrap hook, line and sinker.
Return to the claptrap and give it to him.
Unlike many composers, Plagge is able to discuss his music clearly and without pedantic claptrap.
Or rather, his piece of dystopian paranoid claptrap filled with spelling and grammar errors.
Chairman, I have never heard such a load of claptrap in all my life.
Did you get the missions from Claptrap on Sanctuary?
And Russell, I agree with you, this is claptrap.
That stuff about different climates is complete claptrap, Barb.
Detox: flushing out poison or absorbing dangerous claptrap?
This site is largely based on racist claptrap.