Meaning

Resembling or characteristic of a blast or explosion..

Definitions by Sense

1. Resembling or characteristic of a blast or explosion.
2. Extremely loud.
3. (obsolete) Affected by blasts; gusty.
4. (obsolete) Given to outbursts; blustery.
5. (now rare) Causing or displaying blast (blight) or injury

Example Sentences

How could a lodger make blasty noises without a gramophone to drown his shame ... ?

Personally, I wouldn't have the muzzle-brake on the end of a rifle barrel—particularly not a rifle with such a blasty calibre as the .270.

And the kid picked out this pomegranate-colored rug with all these colorful swooshes and he called it the "blasty rug," and the mom kept pulling him over to this plain brown rug and saying, "This will match your bedspread, Henry."

"Why don't I get a cool blasty thing?” Alex demanded.

The recording is for the most part clean and bright, with only an occasional blasty forte marring the otherwise excellent sound.

Roland's arrangement of the Ellington-Strayhorn piece captures the feeling of the original but invests it with the Kenton sound by employing the band's predictable blasty trombones and its typical screaming trumpets .

Not merely do the scrunching squeaks of the break, the blasty trumpet whistle , the slamming of doors , and the squalling of children bewilder his brain and bedeafen his ears, but the iron tyrant enchains and confuses his eyes .

Thus passed the first afternoon of my retour by the Mountaineer, and the next day being blasty and bleak, nobody was in a humour either to tell or to hear stories;

Word Forms

• blastier
• blastiest

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Use blasty when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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