Blustery

/ˈblʌstəɹi/ · adjective

Meaning

Blowing in loud and abrupt bursts..

Definitions by Sense

1. Blowing in loud and abrupt bursts.
2. Accompanied by strong wind.
3. (of a person) Pompous or arrogant, especially in one's speech; given to outbursts.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

Today is such a cold blustery day!

[…] blustery winters with little snow, when the whole country is stripped bare and gray as sheet-iron.

In the small hours of a blustery October morning in a south Devon coastal town that seemed to have been deserted by its inhabitants, Magnus Pym got out of his elderly country taxicab and, having paid the driver and waited till he had left, struck out across the church square.

The drizzle became blustery rain as she approached Curracloe.

Duke Wilhelm […] seems to have been of a headlong, blustery, uncertain disposition; much tossed about in the controversies of his day.

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• more blustery
• most blustery

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