Blustery — Meaning, Definition & Synonyms

Related Entry: Bluster (noun)

Bluster is a different word from Blustery. The synonyms below are for bluster, not for blustery.

1. boastful speech or writing

   "all the bluster in the campaign speech was intended to hide a lack of specifics"

   similar: bombast, brag, braggadocio, bull (slang), cockalorum, fanfaronade, gas, gasconade, grandiloquence, hot air, magniloquence, rant, rodomontade
   related: oratory, rhapsody, rhetoric, pomposity, turgidity, wind, bloviation, verbosity, windiness, babble, blab, chatter, drivel, gabble, gibber, gibberish, jabber, prattle, jawing, patter, prating, yammering, egotism, self-conceit, self-importance, swagger, vaunt

2. loud, confused, and usually inharmonious sound

   "I can't work with all the bluster in here"

   similar: babel, blare, bowwow, brawl, bruit (archaic), cacophony, chatter, clamor, clangor, decibel(s), din, discordance, katzenjammer, noise, racket, rattle, roar
   related: discord, dissonance, commotion, furor, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, rumpus, tumult, uproar, clatter, jangle, bang, blast, boom, clap, crack, crash
   opposite: quiet, silence, silentness, still, stillness
   near: calm, hush, lull, quietude, serenity, tranquility

3. a state of noisy, confused activity

   "a mayor who got things done without a lot of bluster and self-serving publicity"

   similar: ado, alarums and excursions, ballyhoo, blather, bobbery, bother, bustle, clatter, clutter (chiefly dialect), coil, commotion, disturbance, do (chiefly dialect), foofaraw, fun, furor, furore, fuss, helter-skelter, hoo-ha, hoopla, hubble-bubble, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly, hurly-burly, hurricane, hurry, hurry-scurry, kerfuffle (chiefly British), moil, pandemonium, pother, row, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, shindy, splore (Scottish), squall, stew, stir, storm, to-do, tumult, turmoil, uproar, welter, whirl, williwaw, zoo
   related: cacophony, clamor, din, howl, hue and cry, noise, outcry, racket, roar, disorder, unrest, upheaval, eruption, flare-up, flurry, flutter, outbreak, outburst, brawl, fracas, fray, hassle, melee, scuffle, dither, fever, fret, lather, tizzy
   near: calm, hush, peace, quiet, quietude, rest, stillness, tranquility, order, orderliness