Word Meanings - RODOMONTADE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Vain boasting; empty bluster or vaunting; rant. I could show that the rodomontades of Almanzor are neither so irrational nor impossible. Dryden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RODOMONTADE)

• Romance
• Fable
• fiction
• novel
• marvel
• rhapsody
• rodomontade
• gasconade
• balderdash

Related words: (words related to RODOMONTADE)

• GASCONADER
  A great boaster; a blusterer.
• NOVELRY
  Novelty; new things. Chaucer.
• NOVEL
  News; fresh tidings. Some came of curiosity to hear some novels. Latimer. 3. A fictitious tale or narrative, professing to be conformed to real life; esp., one intended to exhibit the operation of the passions, and particularly of love. Dryden.
• MARVELOUS
  1. Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful. This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. Ps. cxiii. 23. 2. Partaking of the character of miracle, or superna The marvelous fable includes whatever is supernatural, and especially
• FICTIONIST
  A writer of fiction. Lamb.
• FICTION
  An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth. Wharton. 5. Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue. Syn. --
• NOVELTY
  1. The quality or state of being novel; newness; freshness; recentness of origin or introduction. Novelty is the great parent of pleasure. South. 2. Something novel; a new or strange thing.
• GASCONADE
  A boast or boasting; a vaunt; a bravado; a bragging; braggodocio. Swift.
• FABLE
  1. A Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. See the Note under Apologue. Jotham's fable of the trees is the oldest extant. Addison 2. The plot,
• RODOMONTADE
  To boast; to brag; to bluster; to rant.
• FICTIONAL
  Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic."Fictional rather than historical." Latham.
• FABLER
  A writer of fables; a fabulist; a dealer in untruths or falsehoods. Br. Hall.
• NOVELISM
  Innovation.
• BALDERDASH
  clatter, and E. dash; hence, perhaps, unmeaning noise, then hodgepodge, mixture; or W. baldorduss a prattling, baldordd, 1. A worthless mixture, especially of liquors. Indeed beer, by a mixture of wine, hath lost both name and nature, and is called
• NOVELIZE
  1. To innovate. 2. To put into the form of novels; to represent by fiction. "To novelize history." Sir J. Herschel.
• NOVELIST
  A writer of news. Tatler . 3. Etym: (more info) 1. An innovator; an asserter of novelty. Cudworth. 2. Etym:
• MARVELOUSLY
  In a marvelous manner; wonderfully; strangely.
• ROMANCER
  One who romances.
• NOVELETTE
  A short novel.
• MARVEL
  wonderful things, pl., fr. mirabilis wonderful, fr. mirari to wonder 1. That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle. I will do marvels such as have not been done. Ex. xxxiv. 10. Nature's sweet marvel undefiled. Emerson. 2. Wonder. "Use lessens
• INEFFABLENESS
  The quality or state of being ineffable or unutterable; unspeakableness.
• RENOVELANCE
  Renewal. Chaucer.
• NECROMANCER
  One who practices necromancy; a sorcerer; a wizard.
• EFFABLE
  Capable of being uttered or explained; utterable. Barrow.
• MISCHIEFABLE
  Mischievous. Lydgate.
• INEFFABLE
  Incapable of being expresses in words; unspeakable; unutterable; indescribable; as, the ineffable joys of heaven. Contentment with our lot . . . will diffuse ineffable contenBeattie.
• OUTROMANCE
  To exceed in romantic character. Fuller.
• AFFABLE
  1. Easy to be spoken to or addressed; receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; courteous; sociable. An affable and courteous gentleman. Shak. His manners polite and affable. Macaulay. 2. Gracious;
• RENOVEL
  To renew; to renovate. Chaucer.
• CHIROMANCER
  One who practices chiromancy. Dryden.