Blustering

Synonyms for "blustering" (138 found)

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Related word relations

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More general

16 entries
aggressionbehaviorbehavioral patternboisterousnesscommunicationcommunication styleloudnessmeteorological statenatural forcepersonality traitrhetoricrhetorical techniquespeech actspeech strategyweather conditionweather phenomenon

More specific

18 entries
boastful speechboastingboasting talkbombastic rhetoricbraggadociobravadobullying behaviorgalegrandstandinggustgustsgusty windoverbearing toneoverconfidencerantshrill voice

Showing 16 of 18 words.

Collocations

12 entries
act of blusteringblustering approachblustering crowdblustering defenseblustering politicianblustering rhetoricblustering speechblustering toneblustering voiceblustering windbombastic blusteringloud blustering

Inflections

5 entries
blusteredblusteringsblustersmore blusteringmost blustering

Derivations

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similar

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Sample sentences

23 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Such thoughts revolving in her fiery mind, / straightway the Goddess to AEolia passed, / the storm-clouds' birthplace, big with blustering wind.

Source: tatoeba (6779171)

Amid the waves is seen / an island, sacred to the Nereids' queen / and Neptune, lord of the AEgean wave, / which, floating once, Apollo fixed between / high Myconos and Gyarus, and gave / for man's resort, unmoved the blustering winds to brave.

Source: tatoeba (6952421)

To climb the rubble slope without displacing the shale was impossible; to do so without making sufficient noise to alarm the sentinel was hardly feasible in such a still night. This might have been done in blustering wind and lashing rain, not on such a night as that when the bullfrog's call rang down the valley and was answered by another frog a mile distant.

Source: tatoeba (12207584)

He will soon disregard the roaring of your eloquence, as the bold sailor contemns the blustering of the winds […]

Source: wiktionary

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