blusterous
/ˈblʌst(ə)ɹəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] wee see a strong and sturdie Oke to stande stiffe and immo∣uable against the blustrous blastes of fierce windes […]"
- "These Sunday-morning hair-cuttings were performed by Fairway; the victim sitting on a chopping-block in front of the house […]. Summer and winter the scene was the same, unless the wind were more than usually blusterous, when the stool was shifted a few feet round the corner."
- "They had had an afternoon of blusterous tramontana, continually changing direction and force, and exploding the light snowfalls with mischievous gusts."
- "[I]t seemed entirely right and fitting that the wind sang and sobbed in the poplar tops, and in the lulls of it, sudden spirts of rain spattered the already dusty roads, on that blusterous March day when Edward and I awaited, on the station platform, the arrival of the new tutor."
- "For lo! the wind was blusterous / And flattened out his favourite tree; / And things looked bad for him and we— […]"
- "The antient Heroes were illustrious / For being benigne, and not blustrous, / Against a vanquisht foe: […]"
Etymology
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
blusterously
blusterousness