different between clamorous vs blustering

English

Alternative forms

• clamourous (archaic)

Etymology

clamor +? -ous; compare Latin cl?m?r?sus and French clamoreux (obsolete), from Latin cl?m?rem.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?klæm???s/
• Hyphenation: cla?mor?ous

Adjective

clamorous (comparative more clamorous, superlative most clamorous)

1. Of or pertaining to clamor.
   1. (of sounds) Of great intensity.

      Synonym: loud

      • c. 1593, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act III, Scene 2,^[1]

        […] he took the bride about the neck,

        And kiss’d her lips with such a clamorous smack

        That at the parting all the church did echo.

      • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, London: Smith, Elder, Volume 1, Chapter 11, p. 200,^[2]

        […] the sound [of laughter] ceased, only for an instant; it began again, louder: for at first, though distinct, it was very low. It passed off in a clamorous peal that seemed to wake an echo in every lonely chamber;

   2. (of people, animals or things) Creating a loud noise.

      Synonym: noisy

      • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act II, Scene 2,^[3]

        The clamorous owl that nightly hoots

   3. (of emotions or feelings) Expressed loudly.
      • 1769, Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, London: A. Millar, Part 1, Section 2, Chapter 4, p. 42,^[4]

        We are disgusted with that clamorous grief, which, without any delicacy, calls upon our compassion with sighs and tears and importunate lamentations.

      • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, London: T. Egerton, Volume 2, Chapter 18, p. 226,^[5]

        […] in the clamorous happiness of Lydia herself in bidding farewell, the more gentle adieus of her sisters were uttered without being heard.

   4. (of times, places, events or activities) Filled with or accompanied by a great deal of noise.

      Synonym: noisy

      • 1847, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, Boston: Ticknor, Part 4, p. 49,^[6]

        Life had long been astir in the village, and clamorous labor

        Knocked with its hundred hands at the golden gates of the morning.

      • 1995, Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance, London: Faber & Faber, Chapter 11, p. 425,^[7]

        […] he tried rising late, but the clamorous dawn, filled with clanging milkmen and argumentative crows, was always victorious.

   5. (of people or speech) Insistently expressing a desire for something.

      Synonym: vociferous

      • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act I, Scene 4,^[8]

        Be clamorous and leap all civil bounds

        Rather than make unprofited return.

      • 1656, William Sanderson, A Compleat History of the Lives and Reigns of Mary Queen of Scotland, and of […] James the Sixth, King of Scotland, and […] King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, the First, London, p. 418,^[9]

        […] Overbury in the mean time might write clamorous and furious Letters to his Friends,

      • 1776, Adam Smith, An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, Volume 2, Book 4, Chapter 7, Part 1, p. 148,^[10]

        The people became clamorous to get land, and the rich and the great, we may believe, were perfectly determined not to give them any part of theirs.

      • 1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth, London: Chapman and Hall, Volume 3, Chapter 2, p. 58,^[11]

        They were clamorous for an expedition to the hills, before the calm stillness of the autumn should be disturbed by storms.

2. Having especially (and often unpleasantly) bright or contrasting colours or patterns.

   Synonyms: garish, gaudy, loud

   • 1970, Patrick White, The Vivisector, New York: Avon, 1980, Chapter 6, p. 376,^[12]

     She led them along a path edged with round, whitewashed stones and equally rounded basils of a clamorous green.

   • 2015, John Irving, Avenue of the Mysteries, New York: Simon and Schuster, Chapter 9, p. 99,^[13]

     It was impossible to overlook the clamorous parrots on the new missionary’s Hawaiian shirt.

Synonyms

• clamorsome

Derived terms

• clamorously

Translations

English

Noun

blustering (plural blusterings)

1. A noisy blowing, as of a blast of wind.
   • 1784, William Augustus Miles, Letters of Neptune and Gracchus, London: M. Smith, p. 41,^[1]

     He will soon disregard the roaring of your eloquence, as the bold sailor contemns the blustering of the winds […]

2. Swaggering; braggartry; noisy pretension.
   • 1906, Theodore Roosevelt, A Square Deal, “A Square Deal and the Monroe Doctrine,” p. 179,^[2]

     Boasting and blustering are as objectionable among nations as among individuals, and the public men of a great nation owe it to their sense of national self-respect to speak courteously of foreign powers just as a brave and self-respecting man treats all around him courteously.

   • 1960, “Halfway Coexistence,” Time, 18 April, 1960,^[3]

     In Moscow, where parties are judged by the quantity and quality of Russian officials who attend, the U.S. party was a smashing success. Some attributed it to the popularity of Ambassador Thompson, others felt it was another sign that coexistence is still Soviet policy in spite of Khrushchev’s blustering.

   • 2010, Emily Hill, “The Pub Bore of British Letters,” Spiked, 26 February, 2010,^[4]

     Generally, you know, I’m conspiracy-theory-phobic. But in this case, all Amis’s blustering about how he’s ill-treated seems to mask the reality of a completely simpering attitude to our greatest living novelist utterly regardless of the quality of his literary output.

Adjective

blustering (comparative more blustering, superlative most blustering)

1. Engaged in or involving the process of blustering, speaking or protesting loudly.
   • 1593, Gabriel Harvey, Pierce’s supererogation, or a New Prayse of the Old Asse,^[5]

     But when we began to renue our old acquaintance, and to shake the handes of discontinued familiaritie, alas, good Gentleman, his mandillion was ouercropped, his witt paunched like his wiues spindle, his art shanked like a lath, his conceit as lank as a shotten herring, and that same blustering eloquence as bleake and wan as the Picture of a forlorne Loouer.

   • 1820, Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, or Many Things in Few Words, addressed to those who think, New York: C.P. Fessende, 1832, Volume 1, p. 173,^[6]

     Oratory is the huffing and blustering spoilt-child of a semi-barbarous age.

   • 1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, Chapter 9, I,^[7]

     For once Babbitt did not break out in blustering efforts to keep the party going.

   • 2011, Colin Freeman, “Egypt’s revolution: leaders must obey new rules, but protesters still impatient for elections and change,” w:The Daily Telegraph, 16 March, 2011,^[8]

     In the old days, such impertinence might have seen Mr Aswani taken directly from the studio to the cells; this time, though, it was the prime minister who paid the price. Rendered a nationwide laughing stock by his blustering performance, he resigned a day later - the first casualty of a new era of Egyptian politics, where ministers’ careers are ended not by presidential decree, or by mass street uprising, but because they themselves feel they have failed.

2. Pompous or arrogant in one's speech or bearing.
   • 1947, Upton Sinclair, Presidential Mission, Chapter 25, I,^[9]

     Hermann Göring was a dominating and blustering host. His unresting ego did not permit him to permit his guests to do what they pleased; he told them how to entertain themselves, and he told them what to think. When he was with them, he took charge of the conversation; when he chose to be funny, they all laughed, and he laughed loudest.
3. Very windy; (of wind) blowing very strongly, blustery.
   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, Act V, Scene 1,^[10]

     The southern wind

     Doth play the trumpet to his purposes,

     And by his hollow whistling in the leaves

     Foretells a tempest and a blustering day.

   • 1640, George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum; or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, etc., in The Remains of that Sweet Singer of the Temple George Herbert, London: Pickering, 1841, p. 152,^[11]

     A blustering night, a fair day.

   • 1793, William Wordsworth, “An Evening Walk, Addressed to a Young Lady,”^[12]

     Theirs be these holms untrodden, still, and green,

     Where leafy shades fence off the blustering gale,

     And breathes in peace the lily of the vale!

   • 1917, Siegfried Sassoon, “A Poplar and the Moon” in The Old Huntsman and Other Poems, London: William Heinemann, p. 86,^[13]

     But May, with slumbrous nights, must pass;

     And blustering winds will strip the tree.

   • 1963, “There’s Nothing to Be Sorry For,” Time, 20 December, 1963,^[14]

     They ripped out the phone, took Sinatra outside and disappeared into a blustering snowstorm.

Verb

blustering

1. present participle of bluster