Word Meanings - FUSTIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

It. fustagno, fr. LL. fustaneum, fustanum; cf. Pr. fustani, Sp. 1. A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc. 2. An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high- sounding words are

Additional info about word: FUSTIAN

It. fustagno, fr. LL. fustaneum, fustanum; cf. Pr. fustani, Sp. 1. A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc. 2. An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high- sounding words are used,' above the dignity of the thoughts or subject; bombast. Claudius . . . has run his description into the most wretched fustian. Addison.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FUSTIAN)

• Balderdash
• Gasconade
• flummery
• rhodomontade
• bombast
• fustian
• froth
• Bombast
• Rhodomontade
• braggadocio
• gasconade
• bluster
• inflatedness
• pomposity
• exaggerativeness
• Grandiloquence
• Verbosity
• mouthiness
• grandiosity
• antiloquence
• stiltedness
• euphuism
• turgidity

Related words: (words related to FUSTIAN)

• GASCONADER
  A great boaster; a blusterer.
• FROTHILY
  In a frothy manner.
• 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.
• GRANDILOQUENCE
  The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense. The sin of grandiloquence or tall talking. Thackeray,
• FROTHING
  Exaggerated declamation; rant.
• BOMBAST
  a doublet of cotton; hence, padding, wadding, fustian. See 1. Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. A candle with a wick of bombast. Lupton. 2. Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding. How now, my sweet
• BLUSTERINGLY
  In a blustering manner.
• GASCONADE
  A boast or boasting; a vaunt; a bravado; a bragging; braggodocio. Swift.
• BLUSTEROUS
  Inclined to bluster; given to blustering; blustering. Motley.
• FROTHLESS
  Free from froth.
• VERBOSITY
  The quality or state of being verbose; the use of more words than are necessary; prolixity; wordiness; verbiage. The worst fault, by far, is the extreme diffuseness and verbosity of his style. Jeffrey.
• BALDERDASH
  clatter, and E. dash; hence, perhaps, unmeaning noise, then hodgepodge, mixture; or W. baldorduss a prattling, baldordd, 1. A worthless mixture, especially of liquors. Indeed beer, by a mixture of wine, hath lost both name and nature, and is called
• FROTH
  1. The bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement. 2. Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought. Johnson. It was a
• FLUMMERY
  oatmeal steeped in water until it has turned sour, fr. llumrig harsh, 1. A light kind of food, formerly made of flour or meal; a sort of pap. Milk and flummery are very fit for children. Locke. 2. Something insipid, or not worth having;
• FUSTIANIST
  A writer of fustian. Milton.
• FUSTIAN
  It. fustagno, fr. LL. fustaneum, fustanum; cf. Pr. fustani, Sp. 1. A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc. 2. An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high- sounding words are
• GRANDIOSITY
  The state or quality of being grandiose,
• FROTHINESS
  State or quality of being frothy.
• BLUSTERING
  1. Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous. A tempest and a blustering day. Shak. 2. Uttering noisy threats; noisy and swaggering; boisterous. "A blustering fellow." L'Estrange.
• BRAGGADOCIO
  1. A braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer. Dryden. 2. Empty boasting; mere brag; pretension.
• SEA FROTH
  See 2