'Blustering' definitions:
Definition of 'blustering'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Blowing in violent 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]
Definition of 'Blustering'
From: GCIDE
- Bluster \Blus"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blustered; p. pr. & vb. n. Blustering.] [Allied to blast.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather. [1913 Webster]
- And ever-threatening storms Of Chaos blustering round. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic tyrants. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Blustering'
From: GCIDE
- Blustering \Blus"ter*ing\, a.
- 1. Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous. [1913 Webster]
- A tempest and a blustering day. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Uttering noisy threats; noisy and swaggering; boisterous. "A blustering fellow." --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'blustering'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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