Synonyms for BLUSTER
ˈblʌs tərblus·ter

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1. blusternoun

   Synonyms:
   bombast

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1. bluster

   Synonyms:
   storm, rage, puff, insult, blow, swagger, fume, brag

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1. blusternoun

   noisy confusion and turbulence

   "he was awakened by the bluster of their preparations"

   Synonyms:
   braggadocio, rodomontade, bravado, rhodomontade

2. bravado, blusternoun

   a swaggering show of courage

   Synonyms:
   braggadocio, rodomontade, bravado, bluster, rhodomontade

3. blusternoun

   a violent gusty wind

   Synonyms:
   braggadocio, rodomontade, bravado, rhodomontade

4. braggadocio, bluster, rodomontade, rhodomontadeverb

   vain and empty boasting

   Synonyms:
   braggadocio, rodomontade, bravado, bluster, rhodomontade

5. blusterverb

   blow hard; be gusty, as of wind

   "A southeaster blustered onshore"; "The flames blustered"

   Synonyms:
   brag, boast, shoot a line, swash, gas, vaunt, blow, tout, swagger, gasconade

6. boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconadeverb

   show off

   Synonyms:
   swash, gasconade, botch, splatter, bungle, muck up, splash, mishandle, bumble, botch up, brag, blow, burn out, flub, suck, waste, fumble, shove off, fellate, muff, ball up, sport, bollocks, mess up, feature, louse up, bollocks up, float, gas, bollix, plash, vaunt, screw up, spoil, tout, shoot a line, go down on, swagger, foul up, fluff, blow out, drift, bobble, bluster, be adrift, shove along, bollix up, squander, splosh, boast, bodge, spatter

7. swagger, bluster, swashverb

   act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner

   Synonyms:
   ruffle, tittup, sashay, swash, gas, splatter, swagger, vaunt, cock, gasconade, browbeat, splosh, tout, plash, strut, bluster, prance, spatter, blow, brag, bully, boast, splash, shoot a line

Matched Categories

1. • Blow
   • Confusion
   • Gust

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1. blusterverb

   Synonyms:
   roar (as the wind), make a loud noise

2. blusterverb

   Synonyms:
   vapor, swagger, bully, BOAST, vaunt, swell, domineer, gasconade, play the bully

3. blusterverb

   Synonyms:
   make a great ado, make much ado about nothing

4. blusternoun

   Synonyms:
   boisterousness, noise, tumult, turbulence

5. blusternoun

   Synonyms:
   boasting, swaggering, bullying, blattering, BLATHERSKITE

6. blusternoun

   Synonyms:
   great ado, much ado about nothing

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1. blusternoun

   Synonyms:
   swaggering, gasconade, boasting, wind, storm

2. blusterverb

   Synonyms:
   swagger, storm, rage, gasconade, roister

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How to use BLUSTER in a sentence?

1. Jimmy Carter:

   A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.

2. Kate Klonick:

   A lot of the executive order is bluster.

3. White House spokesman Eric Schultz:

   This is not the first time that Republicans have come out with a lot of bluster, only to have reality ultimately sink in, at each pass, they took a hard line. They tried to play politics. But ultimately, they were not able to back up their threats.

4. Philip Yun:

   The threat here is, to me right now, it's a lot of bluster, for them to deliver on a threat, they have to have intent and they have to have capability. And quite frankly, I don't think they have both.

5. Sebastian Gorka:

   The real estate mogul from New York is a lot of bluster, a lot of loud things to do with waterboarding, etc.