blustery
Definition
- 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.
Adjective
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noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others
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blowing in violent and abrupt bursts
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blustering (or blusterous) winds of Patagonia
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a cold blustery day
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a gusty storm with strong sudden rushes of wind
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