Word Meanings - BLUSTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Etym: 1. To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather. And ever-threatening storms Of Chaos blustering round. Milton. 2. To talk with noisy violence; to swagger, as a turbulent or boasting person;
Additional info about word: BLUSTER
Etym: 1. To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather. And ever-threatening storms Of Chaos blustering round. Milton. 2. To talk with noisy violence; to swagger, as a turbulent or boasting person; to act in a noisy, tumultuous way; to play the bully; to storm; to rage. Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic tyrants. Burke.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BLUSTER)
- Bombast
- Rhodomontade
- braggadocio
- gasconade
- bluster
- inflatedness
- pomposity
- exaggerativeness
- fustian
- Effervesce
- Boil
- bubble
- foam
- mantle
- froth
- ferment
- sparkle
- explode
- Hector Bully
- swagger
- annoy
- boast
- vaunt
- harass
- threaten
- tease
- worry
- Tumult
- Uproar
- disturbance
- turbulence
- mutiny
- insubordination
- excitement
- outbreak
- fray
- bustle
- distraction
- turmoil
- disorder
- confusion
- noise
- brawl
- riot
Related words: (words related to BLUSTER)
- GASCONADER
A great boaster; a blusterer. - TEASER
A jager gull. (more info) 1. One who teases or vexes. - FERMENTABLE
Capable of fermentation; as, cider and other vegetable liquors are fermentable. - TURBULENCE
The quality or state of being turbulent; a disturbed state; tumult; disorder; agitation. Shak. The years of . . . warfare and turbulence which ensued. Southey. Syn. -- Agitation; commotion; tumult; tumultuousness; termagance; unruliness; - HECTORISM
The disposition or the practice of a hector; a bullying. - FERMENT
fervimentum, fr. fervere to be boiling hot, boil, ferment: cf. F. 1. That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer. Note: Ferments are of two kinds: Formed or organized ferments. Unorganized or structureless ferments. The - HARASS
To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out. harassed with a long and wearisome march. Bacon. Nature - FROTHILY
In a frothy manner. - UPROARIOUS
Making, or accompanied by, uproar, or noise and tumult; as, uproarious merriment. -- Up*roar"i*ous*ly, adv. -- Up*roar"i*ous*ness, n. - VAUNT
To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag. Pride, which prompts a man to vaunt and overvalue what he is, does incline him to disvalue what he has. Gov. of Tongue. - INSUBORDINATION
The quality of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful authority. - MUTINY
mutiner, fr. F. mutin stubborn, mutinous, fr. OF. meute riot, LL. 1. Insurrection against constituted authority, particularly military or naval authority; concerted revolt against the rules of discipline or the lawful commands of a superior - MANTLE
See WINGS (more info) mantellum, mantelum, a cloth, napkin, cloak, mantle (cf. mantele, mantile, towel, napkin); prob. from manus hand + the root of tela 1. A loose garment to be worn over other garments; - FROTHY
1. Full of foam or froth, or consisting of froth or light bubbles; spumous; foamy. 2. Not firm or solid; soft; unstable. Bacon. 3. Of the nature of froth; light; empty; unsubstantial; as, a frothy speaker or harangue. Tillotson. - DISTRACTION
1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. His power went out in - EFFERVESCENCE; EFFERVESCENCY
A kind of natural ebullition; that commotion of a fluid which takes place when some part of the mass flies off in a gaseous form, producing innumerable small bubbles; as, the effervescence of a carbonate with citric acid. - BOASTFUL
Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising. -- Boast"ful*ly, adv. -- Boast"ful*ness, n. - OUTBREAK
A bursting forth; eruption; insurrection. "Mobs and outbreaks." J. H. Newman. The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind. Shak. - SPARKLER
One who scatters; esp., one who scatters money; an improvident person. - BUSTLER
An active, stirring person. - OUTSPARKLE
To exceed in sparkling. - INEFFERVESCENT
Not effervescing, or not susceptible of effervescence; quiescent. - PREFERMENT
1. The act of choosing, or the state of being chosen; preference. Natural preferment of the one . . . before the other. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or office; the state of being advanced; promotion. Neither