Bluster vs. Pompous — What's the Difference?

To blow in loud, violent gusts, as the wind during a storm.

Characterized by excessive self-esteem or exaggerated dignity; pretentious

To speak in a loudly arrogant or bullying manner.

Full of high-sounding phrases; bombastic

To brag or make loud, empty threats.

(Archaic) Characterized by pomp or stately display

To force or bully with swaggering threats.

Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.

A violent, gusty wind.

Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession.

Turbulence or noisy confusion.

Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style.

Loud, arrogant speech, often full of empty threats.

Puffed up with vanity;

Pompous, officious talk.

A gust of wind.

Fitful noise and violence.

To speak or protest loudly.

To act or speak in an unduly threatening manner.

To blow in strong or sudden gusts.

To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather.

To talk with noisy violence; to swagger, as a turbulent or boasting person; to act in a noisy, tumultuous way; to play the bully; to storm; to rage.

To utter, or do, with noisy violence; to force by blustering; to bully.

Fitful noise and violence, as of a storm; violent winds; boisterousness.

Noisy and violent or threatening talk; noisy and boastful language.

Noisy confusion and turbulence;

A swaggering show of courage

A violent gusty wind

Vain and empty boasting

Blow hard; be gusty, as of wind;

Show off

Act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner