Dictionary Entry
bluster
bluster is a 7-letter English word with 12 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather.
- 2intransitive verb
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.
- 3transitive verb
To utter, or do, with noisy violence; to force by blustering; to bully.
- 4noun
Fitful noise and violence, as of a storm; violent winds; boisterousness.
- 5noun
Noisy and violent or threatening talk; noisy and boastful language.
- 6noun
a swaggering show of courage
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- 7noun
vain and empty boasting
- 8noun
a violent gusty wind
- 9noun
noisy confusion and turbulence
"he was awakened by the bluster of their preparations"
- 10verb
act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner
- 11verb
show off
- 12verb
blow hard; be gusty, as of wind
"A southeaster blustered onshore"
"The flames blustered"
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