Blustering
['blʌstəriŋ]
Definition
(adj.) blowing in violent and abrupt bursts; 'blustering (or blusterous) winds of Patagonia'; 'a cold blustery day'; 'a gusty storm with strong sudden rushes of wind' .
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bluster
(a.) Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous.
(a.) Uttering noisy threats; noisy and swaggering; boisterous.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Windy, stormy, tempestuous, squally, gusty.[2]. Swaggering, boasting, bragging, blattering, pompous, assuming, important, arrogant, swelling, big, bluff, self-sufficient, self-conceited.
Typist: Stephanie
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See BLUFF]
Edited by Lenore
Examples
- The light of high day surrounded me; not, indeed, a warm, summer light, but the leaden gloom of raw and blustering autumn. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It was five and a half o'clock now, and a raw, blustering morning. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- So sink the shadows of night, blustering, rainy; and all paths grow dark. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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