blustery

Thân thiện

A child struggles to walk against the blustery wind.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Characterized by strong, gusty winds: Describes weather conditions where the wind blows with sudden, forceful, and often noisy bursts.
   • Noisily domineering or bullying: Describes a person's manner that is loud, aggressive, and tends to intimidate or browbeat others.

Examples of Usage

• Describing weather:
  • It was a cold, blustery day, with leaves swirling in the air.
  • The blustery winds made it difficult to walk along the beach.
• Describing a person's manner:
  • The manager's blustery tone intimidated the new employees.
  • He dismissed the criticism with a blustery wave of his hand.

Advanced Usage

• "blustery rhetoric": Loud, aggressive, and often empty or threatening language used in speech or writing.
  • The politician's blustery rhetoric failed to convince the skeptical audience.
• "blustery performance": A theatrical or public performance that is overly loud, forceful, or bombastic.
  • The actor's blustery performance overshadowed the subtler moments of the play.

Variants and Related Words

• Bluster (verb/noun): To talk or act in a noisy, boastful, or bullying way; or the noise and force of a storm.
  • He tends to bluster when he's challenged. (verb)
  • We could hear the bluster of the approaching storm. (noun)
• Blustering (adj): Acting or speaking in a blustery manner; (of wind) blowing in strong gusts.
  • His blustering excuses were not accepted.
• Blusterous (adj): An alternative form meaning stormy or blustering.
  • The blusterous conditions forced the cancellation of the flight.

Synonyms

• For weather: gusty, windy, stormy, tempestuous, squally.
• For manner: bombastic, bullying, domineering, hectoring, swaggering.

Related Phrases

• Full of bluster: Describing someone who makes a lot of noisy, empty threats or boasts.
  • His threats are full of bluster; he rarely follows through.

Related Idioms

• All bluster and no bite: Used to describe someone who makes loud, threatening statements but does not take any real action.
  • Don't worry about his anger; he's all bluster and no bite.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others
2. 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

Từ đồng nghĩa

• bullying
• blustering
• blusterous