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Blustered vs Lustered - What's the difference?

blustered | lustered |

As verbs the difference between blustered and lustered

is that blustered is (bluster) while lustered is (luster).

blustered

English

Verb

(head)
  • (bluster)

    • bluster

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Pompous, officious talk.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster .}}
  • A gust of wind.
  • Fitful noise and violence.

    • Synonyms

    * (pompous talk) bombast

    Verb

  • To speak or protest loudly.
    • When confronted by opposition his reaction was to bluster , which often cowed the meek.
  • To act or speak in an unduly threatening manner.
  • * Burke
    • Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic tyrants.
  • * Sir T. More
    • He bloweth and blustereth out his abominable blasphemy.
  • * Fuller
    • As if therewith he meant to bluster all princes into a perfect obedience to his commands.
  • To blow in strong or sudden gusts.
  • * Milton
    • And ever-threatening storms / Of Chaos blustering round.

    Derived terms

    * blusterer * blustering * blusterous * blustery

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    lustered

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (luster)

    • luster

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (Commonwealth)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Shine, polish or sparkle.
    • ''He polished the brass doorknob to a high luster .
  • * Addison
    • The scorching sun was mounted high, / In all its lustre , to the noonday sky.
  • By extension, brilliance, attractiveness or splendor.
    • ''After so many years in the same field, the job had lost its luster .
  • * Sir H. Wotton
    • His ancestors continued about four hundred years, rather without obscurity than with any great lustre .
  • Refinement, polish or quality.
    • ''He spoke with all the lustre a seasoned enthusiast should have.
  • A candlestick, chandelier, girandole, etc. generally of an ornamental character.
    • (Alexander Pope)
  • A substance that imparts lustre to a surface, such as plumbago or a glaze.
  • A fabric of wool and cotton with a lustrous surface, used for women's dresses.
    • Antonyms
    * (brilliance) (l)
    Derived terms
    * (l) * (l)
    Related terms
    * (l) * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To gleam, have luster.
  • To give luster, distinguish.
  • To give a coating or other treatment to impart physical luster.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) lustrum, from lustrare, cognate with the above

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A lustrum, quinquennium, a period of five years, originally the interval between Roman censuses.
  • * , II.4.2.ii:
    • Mesue and some other Arabians began to reject and reprehend it; upon whose authority, for many following lusters , it was much debased and quite out of request […].
    Related terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 3

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who lusts.
  • * Bible, Paul
    • Neither fornicators, nor those who serve idols, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor the lusters after mankind shall obtain the kingdom of God.

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