Pandemonium vs Bluster - What's the difference?
pandemonium | bluster | Related terms |
(archaic) A place where all demons live; Hell.
* 1674 — , Book I
Chaos; tumultuous or lawless violence.
* 2004 , Boston Globe , October 22
An outburst; loud, riotous uproar, especially of a crowd.
Pompous, officious talk.
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, title= A gust of wind.
Fitful noise and violence.
To speak or protest loudly.
To act or speak in an unduly threatening manner.
* Burke
* Sir T. More
* Fuller
To blow in strong or sudden gusts.
* Milton
Pandemonium is a related term of bluster.
As nouns the difference between pandemonium and bluster
is that pandemonium is the imaginary capital of hell (often with a capital letter) while bluster is pompous, officious talk.As a verb bluster is
to speak or protest loudly.pandemonium
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Alternative forms
* pandaemonium *Noun
(en-noun)- And Trumpets sound throughout the Host proclaim
A solemn Councel forthwith to be held
At Pandæmonium , the high Capitol
Of Satan and his Peers.
- Whenever you have violent pandemonium , there's the overwhelming possibility for panic and tragedy.
Synonyms
* (tumultuous or lawless violence): chaos * (an outburst): outburst, uproarbluster
English
Noun
(en noun)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 .}}
Synonyms
* (pompous talk) bombastVerb
- When confronted by opposition his reaction was to bluster , which often cowed the meek.
- Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic tyrants.
- He bloweth and blustereth out his abominable blasphemy.
- As if therewith he meant to bluster all princes into a perfect obedience to his commands.
- And ever-threatening storms / Of Chaos blustering round.