1
or less commonly blah-blah
: silly or pretentious chatter or nonsense
2
blahs plural
[perhaps influenced in meaning by blasé]
: a feeling of boredom, lethargy, or general dissatisfaction
Synonyms
Noun
- applesauce [slang]
- balderdash
- baloney
- boloney
- beans
- bilge
- blarney
- blather
- blatherskite
- blither
- bosh
- bull [slang]
- bunk
- bunkum
- buncombe
- claptrap
- codswallop [British]
- crapola [slang]
- crock
- drivel
- drool
- fiddle
- fiddle-faddle
- fiddlesticks
- flannel [British]
- flapdoodle
- folderol
- falderal
- folly
- foolishness
- fudge
- garbage
- guff
- hogwash
- hokeypokey
- hokum
- hoodoo
- hooey
- horsefeathers [slang]
- humbug
- humbuggery
- jazz
- malarkey
- malarky
- moonshine
- muck
- nerts [slang]
- nonsense
- nuts
- piffle
- poppycock
- punk
- rot
- rubbish
- senselessness
- silliness
- slush
- stupidity
- taradiddle
- tarradiddle
- tommyrot
- tosh
- trash
- trumpery
- twaddle
Examples of blah in a Sentence
Noun
She had a bad case of the blahs.
gave me the usual blah that my manuscript did not meet their current publishing needs but thanks for considering them
Adjective
The hotel room was totally blah.
She sat on the couch all day watching television and feeling blah.
Recent Examples on the Web
Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2024
Lighting Lighting is the jewelry of any room, so take down those blah builder grade fixtures and replace them with something magical.
—Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2024
Dalton Ross, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2024
Offence is very blah Recent improvement from the power play has obscured the scoring struggles of this team at five-on-five.
—Jonas Siegel, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024
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Noun
The post-election blahs are endemic across the big three cable news outlets, but the viewership numbers of individual networks can drop farther when the candidate seen as their ideological opposite wins.
—Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2024
Lighting Lighting is the jewelry of any room, so take down those blah builder grade fixtures and replace them with something magical.
—Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2024
Adjective
Sure, the challenges were a bit blah, but still, a rousing and triumphant success.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2024
Offence is very blah Recent improvement from the power play has obscured the scoring struggles of this team at five-on-five.
—Jonas Siegel, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024
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“Blah.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blah. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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