"blustery" meaning in English

See blustery in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more blustery [comparative], most blustery [superlative]
Etymology: From bluster + -y. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|bluster|y}} bluster + -y Head templates: {{en-adj}} blustery (comparative more blustery, superlative most blustery)
  1. Blowing in loud and abrupt bursts. Categories (topical): Weather Synonyms: blusterous, gusty Translations (blowing in loud and abrupt bursts): luidruchtig (Dutch), rumoerig (Dutch), puuskainen (Finnish), bruyant (French), tumultueux (French), böig (German), stamhlaí (Irish), tarakaka (Maori), tempestuoso (Portuguese), ventoso (Spanish), tormentoso (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-blustery-en-adj-vDBq65eC Disambiguation of Weather: 45 55 0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -y, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 56 12 32 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y: 52 17 31 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 57 10 34 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 60 6 35 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 60 5 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 54 15 32 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 46 22 31 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 54 14 31 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 52 16 32 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 46 22 31 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 46 22 31 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 44 27 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 57 11 32 Disambiguation of 'blowing in loud and abrupt bursts': 88 3 8
  2. Accompanied by strong wind. Categories (topical): Weather Synonyms: blowy, blusterous, breezy, squally, stormy, tempestuous, windy Translations (accompanied by strong wind): kovatuulinen (Finnish), stürmisch (German)
    Sense id: en-blustery-en-adj-wNfGOzoQ Disambiguation of Weather: 45 55 0 Disambiguation of 'accompanied by strong wind': 4 95 1
  3. (of a person) Pompous or arrogant, especially in one's speech; given to outbursts. Categories (topical): Personality Synonyms: blustering, blusterous, swaggering
    Sense id: en-blustery-en-adj-n-hRbeei Disambiguation of Personality: 31 15 53
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: blusteriness, unblustery Related terms: blustering, blusterous

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.