 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
blustering
adjective: blowing in loud and abrupt bursts; "blustering (or
blusterous) winds of Patagonia"; "a cold blustery day";
"a gusty storm with strong sudden rushes of wind" [syn:
{blustering(a)}, {blusterous}, {blustery}, {gusty}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bluster \Blus"ter\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Blustered}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Blustering}.] [Allied to blast.]
1. To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be
windy and boisterous, as the weather.
And ever-threatening storms
Of Chaos blustering round. --Milton.
2. To talk with noisy violence; to swagger, as a turbulent or
boasting person; to act in a noisy, tumultuous way; to
play the bully; to storm; to rage.
Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic
tyrants. --Burke.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Blustering \Blus"ter*ing\, adjective
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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
96 Moby Thesaurus words for "blustering":
abusive, aeolian, airish, airy, anarchic, angry, blaring, blasty,
blatant, blatting, blowy, bludgeoning, blusterous, blustery,
boisterous, boreal, brassy, brawling, brazen, breezy, brisk,
browbeating, bulldozing, bullying, chaotic, clamant, clamorous,
clamoursome, clanging, clangorous, clattery, coarse, comminatory,
denunciatory, drafty, favonian, fear-inspiring, flawy, foreboding,
frantic, frenzied, fresh, furious, gusty, hectoring, hellish,
imminent, infuriate, insensate, intimidating, lowering, mad,
mafficking, menacing, minacious, minatory, mindless, noiseful,
noisy, obstreperous, ominous, orgasmic, orgastic, pandemoniac,
puffy, rackety, raging, ranting, ravening, raving, rip-roaring,
roistering, roisterous, rollicking, rough, rowdy, squally,
storming, stormy, strepitant, strepitous, swaggering,
swashbuckling, swashing, tempestuous, terroristic, terrorizing,
threatening, threatful, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent,
uproarious, vociferous, wild, windy
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