Word Meanings - GASCONADE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A boast or boasting; a vaunt; a bravado; a bragging; braggodocio. Swift.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GASCONADE)

• Balderdash
• Gasconade
• flummery
• rhodomontade
• bombast
• fustian
• froth
• Bombast
• Rhodomontade
• braggadocio
• gasconade
• bluster
• inflatedness
• pomposity
• exaggerativeness
• Romance
• Fable
• fiction
• novel
• marvel
• rhapsody
• rodomontade
• balderdash

Related words: (words related to GASCONADE)

• GASCONADER
  A great boaster; a blusterer.
• NOVELRY
  Novelty; new things. Chaucer.
• 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.
• MARVEL
  wonderful things, pl., fr. mirabilis wonderful, fr. mirari to wonder 1. That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle. I will do marvels such as have not been done. Ex. xxxiv. 10. Nature's sweet marvel undefiled. Emerson. 2. Wonder. "Use lessens
• MARVELOUS
  1. Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful. This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. Ps. cxiii. 23. 2. Partaking of the character of miracle, or superna The marvelous fable includes whatever is supernatural, and especially
• 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
• FICTIONIST
  A writer of fiction. Lamb.
• FICTION
  An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth. Wharton. 5. Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue. Syn. --
• BLUSTERINGLY
  In a blustering manner.
• NOVELTY
  1. The quality or state of being novel; newness; freshness; recentness of origin or introduction. Novelty is the great parent of pleasure. South. 2. Something novel; a new or strange thing.
• GASCONADE
  A boast or boasting; a vaunt; a bravado; a bragging; braggodocio. Swift.
• FABLE
  1. A Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. See the Note under Apologue. Jotham's fable of the trees is the oldest extant. Addison 2. The plot,
• BLUSTEROUS
  Inclined to bluster; given to blustering; blustering. Motley.
• FICTIONAL
  Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic."Fictional rather than historical." Latham.
• FROTHLESS
  Free from froth.
• RODOMONTADE
  Vain boasting; empty bluster or vaunting; rant. I could show that the rodomontades of Almanzor are neither so irrational nor impossible. Dryden.
• FABLER
  A writer of fables; a fabulist; a dealer in untruths or falsehoods. Br. Hall.
• NOVELISM
  Innovation.
• INEFFABLENESS
  The quality or state of being ineffable or unutterable; unspeakableness.
• RENOVELANCE
  Renewal. Chaucer.
• NECROMANCER
  One who practices necromancy; a sorcerer; a wizard.
• EFFABLE
  Capable of being uttered or explained; utterable. Barrow.
• MISCHIEFABLE
  Mischievous. Lydgate.
• INEFFABLE
  Incapable of being expresses in words; unspeakable; unutterable; indescribable; as, the ineffable joys of heaven. Contentment with our lot . . . will diffuse ineffable contenBeattie.