True bravery is quite another thing from bravado.
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Bravado
//bɹɑːˈvɑːdoʊ//
Synonyms for "bravado" (82 found)
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Closest matches (17)
Strong matches (24)
Related words (41)
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51 translations across 18 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- перчене noun (a show of defiance or courage)
- фукане noun (a show of defiance or courage)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 虛張聲勢 /虚张声势 noun (a false show of courage)
Finnish
1 entries- uhmakkuus noun (a show of defiance or courage)
French
1 entries- bravade noun (a show of defiance or courage)
German
4 entries- Angeberei noun (a show of defiance or courage)
- Draufgängertum noun (a show of defiance or courage)
- Gehabe noun (a show of defiance or courage)
- Gehabe noun (a false show of courage)
Greek
3 entries- νταηλίκι noun (a show of defiance or courage)
- νταηλίκι noun (a false show of courage)
- ψευτοπαληκαρισμός noun (a false show of courage)
Hungarian
4 entries- erőfitogtatás noun (a show of defiance or courage)
- harciasság noun (a show of defiance or courage)
- hősködés noun (a false show of courage)
- legénykedés noun (a false show of courage)
Icelandic
4 entries- mannalæti noun (a show of defiance or courage)
- mannalæti noun (a false show of courage)
- sýndarhugrekki noun (a show of defiance or courage)
- sýndarhugrekki noun (a false show of courage)
Irish
4 entries- gaisce noun (a false show of courage)
- gaisciúlacht noun (a show of defiance or courage)
- laochas noun (a show of defiance or courage)
- laochas noun (a false show of courage)
Italian
1 entries- bravata noun (a show of defiance or courage)
Japanese
2 entries- 空威張り noun (a false show of courage)
- 虚勢 noun (a false show of courage)
Māori
2 entries- whakatumatuma noun (a show of defiance or courage)
- whāuraura noun (a show of defiance or courage)
Polish
2 entries- brawura noun (a show of defiance or courage)
- brawura noun (a false show of courage)
Portuguese
2 entries- bravata noun (a show of defiance or courage)
- bravata noun (a false show of courage)
Russian
2 entries- брава́да noun (a show of defiance or courage)
- брава́да noun (a false show of courage)
Spanish
4 entries- baladronada noun (a false show of courage)
- bravata noun (a show of defiance or courage)
- bravata noun (a false show of courage)
- bravuconada noun (a false show of courage)
Tagalog
2 entries- bangad noun (a show of defiance or courage)
- bangad noun (a false show of courage)
Ukrainian
1 entries- брава́да noun (a false show of courage)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
The female loves to play man against man, and if she is in a position to do it there is not one who will not resist. The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation. Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.
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Ziri was full of bravado.
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In The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After, we find our four heroes battling against evil forces with a combination of stunning swordplay, unmatched bravado, unbelievable ingenuity, and several strokes of great fortune.
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