RHODOMONTADE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rhodomontade mean? 

• RHODOMONTADE (noun)
  The noun RHODOMONTADE has 1 sense:

1. vain and empty boasting

  Familiarity information: RHODOMONTADE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RHODOMONTADE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Vain and empty boasting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

bluster; braggadocio; rhodomontade; rodomontade

Hypernyms ("rhodomontade" is a kind of...):

boast; boasting; jactitation; self-praise (speaking of yourself in superlatives)

 Context examples 

That they were false, the general had learnt from the very person who had suggested them, from Thorpe himself, whom he had chanced to meet again in town, and who, under the influence of exactly opposite feelings, irritated by Catherine's refusal, and yet more by the failure of a very recent endeavour to accomplish a reconciliation between Morland and Isabella, convinced that they were separated forever, and spurning a friendship which could be no longer serviceable, hastened to contradict all that he had said before to the advantage of the Morlands—confessed himself to have been totally mistaken in his opinion of their circumstances and character, misled by the rhodomontade of his friend to believe his father a man of substance and credit, whereas the transactions of the two or three last weeks proved him to be neither; for after coming eagerly forward on the first overture of a marriage between the families, with the most liberal proposals, he had, on being brought to the point by the shrewdness of the relator, been constrained to acknowledge himself incapable of giving the young people even a decent support.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)