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bloviant

bloviant adjective: tending to bloviate.

Adjective

bloviant (comparative more bloviant, superlative most bloviant)

  1. (rare) Tending to bloviate.
    • For strained metaphor this has not been equaled since a bloviant congressman began his eulogy upon Senator Vance with the words […]1919, Celebration Legal Essays: To Mark the Twenty-fifth Year of Service of John H ...

Forms of bloviant

comparativemore bloviant
superlativemost bloviant

Origin of bloviant

From blow + -i- + -ant, by analogy with deviant. See bloviate.

Questions about bloviant

What does bloviant mean?
Bloviant means tending to bloviate.
What part of speech is bloviant?
Bloviant is an adjective.

Words near bloviant in the dictionary

  1. blouzalindas
  2. blouze
  3. blouzes
  4. blouzy
  5. blove
  6. bloviant
  7. bloviate
  8. bloviated
  9. bloviates
  10. bloviating
  11. bloviatingly

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