blustery
US/ˈblʌstəɹi/
blustery adjective: blowing in loud and abrupt bursts.
Adjective
blustery (comparative more blustery, superlative most blustery)
- Blowing in loud and abrupt bursts.
- Currently, there are blustery winds blowing in Patagonia.
- Fortunately, that May morning was bright and sunny; the breeze blew warm from the southland instead of cold and blustery from the lake, and it was the very best kind of a morning possible for being out of doors.1920, Clara Ingram Judson, “Lost—One Doll Cart”, in Mary Jane’s City Home, New York: Barse & Hopkins, page 117
- Synonyms:
- blusterous, gusty
- Accompanied by strong wind.
- Today is such a cold blustery day!
- […] blustery winters with little snow, when the whole country is stripped bare and gray as sheet-iron.1918, Willa Cather, My Ántonia, Introduction
- Synonyms:
- blowy, blusterous, breezy, squally, stormy, tempestuous, windy
- Pompous or arrogant, especially in one's speech; given to outbursts.
- Duke Wilhelm […] seems to have been of a headlong, blustery, uncertain disposition; much tossed about in the controversies of his day.1858, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia, London: Chapman and Hall, Volume 1, Book 3, Chapter 12, pp. 295-296
- He talks in a rather loud, blustery way and has a nervous, irritable manner.1930, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 1, in The Maltese Falcon, New York: Knopf
- Synonyms:
- blustering, blusterous, swaggering
blustery meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
blustery in Tamil
- கொந்தளிக்கும் இயல்புடைய
blustery in Urdu
- اکڑ فونی
blustery in Malayalam
- gusty, stormy, blowy
- കാറ്റുംപിശറും ഉള്ള, കൊടുങ്കാറ്റുള്ള, ശക്തിയായ കാറ്റുവീശുന്ന, നല്ലകാറ്റുള്ള, കാറ്റോട്ടമുള്ള, കാറ്റടിക്കുന്ന
Examples of blustery in a sentence
- He wished fleetingly that he could once more be out in the open, as when he was a boy—never in the house, but the sound of the blustery wind frightened him.1957, Bernard Malamud, chapter 1, in The Assistant, New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, page 8:
- The drizzle became blustery rain as she approached Curracloe.1999, Colm Tóibín, The Blackwater Lightship, New York: Scribner, page 88:
- Blustery cold out. […] The wind nipped at my ears, and it threatened to blow my carefully styled hair out of place, so I ducked my head down low and walked quickly, […]2024, Lily Seabrooke, Fire and Ice, chapter 34
- Vayu was a large, strong, blustery character, full of drive and energy but mercurial in temperament.1989, Shashi Tharoor, chapter 22, in The Great Indian Novel, New York: Arcade, published 2011:
Synonyms of blustery
Forms of blustery
| comparative | more blustery |
|---|---|
| superlative | most blustery |
Origin of blustery
From bluster + -y.
Words formed from blustery
Questions about blustery
- What does blustery mean?
- Blustery means blowing in loud and abrupt bursts.
- What is blustery in Tamil?
- Blustery in Tamil is கொந்தளிக்கும் இயல்புடைய. See Blustery meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use blustery in a sentence?
- He wished fleetingly that he could once more be out in the open, as when he was a boy—never in the house, but the sound of the blustery wind frightened him.
- What part of speech is blustery?
- Blustery is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce blustery?
- Blustery is pronounced /ˈblʌstəɹi/ (US).
Words near blustery in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: blustery (page history and authors); blustery (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); blustery (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); blustery (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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