Usually means: Speak at length in pompous manner.
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  1. bloviate: Merriam-Webster
  2. bloviate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bloviate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bloviate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bloviate: Vocabulary.com
  6. bloviate: Wordnik
  7. bloviate: Wiktionary
  8. bloviate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. bloviate: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. bloviate: Dictionary.com
  11. bloviate: Rhymezone
  12. bloviate: FreeDictionary.org
  13. bloviate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  14. bloviate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Bloviate: The Word Detective
  16. bloviate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. Bloviate: World Wide Words
  18. bloviate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  19. bloviate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. bloviate: A Word A Day
  2. bloviate: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. bloviate: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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▸ verb:  (intransitive, US) To speak or discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner.

Similar:
bombast, overboast, boast, pontificate, grandiloquize, beyelp, perorate, blare, windbag, blow out one's bags, more...

Opposite:
concise, succinct, brief, point

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Similar:
bombast, overboast, boast, pontificate, grandiloquize, beyelp, perorate, blare, windbag, blow out one's bags, more...

Opposite:
concise, succinct, brief, point



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