bloviate

What does bloviate mean?

bloviate means "orate verbosely and windily".

How many syllables are in bloviate?

bloviate has 3 syllables and divides as blo-vi-ate under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is bloviate a common word?

bloviate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bloviate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.