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BLUSTERING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does blustering mean?
• BLUSTERING (adjective)
The adjective BLUSTERING has 1 sense:
1. blowing in violent and abrupt bursts
Familiarity information: BLUSTERING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Blowing in violent and abrupt bursts
Synonyms:
blustering; blusterous; blustery
Context example:
a gusty storm with strong sudden rushes of wind
Similar:
stormy ((especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion)
Context examples
Beyond, the Pacific, dim and vast, was raising on its sky-line tumbled cloud-masses that swept landward, giving warning of the first blustering breath of winter.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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