rhodomontade

Questions about rhodomontade

What does rhodomontade mean?

rhodomontade means "vain and empty boasting".

How many syllables are in rhodomontade?

rhodomontade has 4 syllables and divides as rho-do-mon-tade 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.

What is another word for rhodomontade?

Close synonyms include braggadocio, bluster, rodomontade. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rhodomontade a common word?

rhodomontade 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.