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Definition: Fustian |
FustianNoun1. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing. 2. A strong cotton and linen fabric with a slight nap. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fustian" was first used: 12th century. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Industry | It was in the Fustat, or old Arab Quarter of the city. . of Cairo. . that. . --. . was supposed to have been first made. Cotton and linen were used in the fabric. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A hard-wearing type of clothing fabric containing a large amount of weft yarn. At different times, the term has been used to describe a considerable variety of structures made from different natural fibres. It is now used to describe a class of heavily wefted fabrics(usually made from cotton)of which swansdown, imperial sateen, beaverteen, moleskin, velveteen, and corduroy are examples. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Literature | Fustian Stuff, bombast, pretentious words. Properly, a sort of cotton velvet. (French, futaine; Spanish, fustan, from Fustat in Egypt, where the cloth was first made.) (See Bombast; Camelot.) "Discourse fustian with one's own shadow." - Shakespeare: Othello, ii. 3. "Some scurvy quaint collection of fustian phrases, and uplandish words." - Heywood: Faire Maide of the Exchange, ii. 2. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | FUSTIAN. Bombast language. Red fustian; port wine. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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During World War II, Operation Fustian was the British airborne assault to seize and hold Primrose Bridge, south of Mount Etna, Italy until relieved by the main Husky invasion force.Executed on 14 July, 1943.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Operation Fustian."
Synonyms: FustianSynonyms: blah (n), bombast (n), claptrap (n), rant (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Absurdity | Jargon, fustian, twaddle, gibberish; (no meaning); exaggeration; moonshine, stuff; mare's nest, quibble, self-delusion. |
Inelegance | Noun: inelegance; stiffness; Adjective: "unlettered Muse"; barbarism; slang; solecism; mannerism; (affectation); euphuism; fustian; cacophony; words that break the teeth, words that dislocate the jaw; marinism. |
Ornament | Big-sounding words, high-sounding words; macrology, sesquipedalia verba, Alexandrine; inflation, pretension; rant, bombast, fustian, prose run mad; fine writing; sesquipedality; Minerva press. |
Adjective: ornament; Verb: beautified; ornate, florid, rich, flowery; euphuistic, euphemistic; sonorous; high-sounding, big-sounding; inflated, swelling, tumid; turgid, turgescent; pedantic, pompous, stilted; orotund; high flown, high flowing; sententious, rhetorical, declamatory; grandiose; grandiloquent, magniloquent, altiloquent; sesquipedal, sesquipedalian; Johnsonian, mouthy; bombastic; fustian; frothy, flashy, flaming. | |
Unmeaningness | Nonsense, utter nonsense, gibberish; jargon, jabber, mere words, hocus-pocus, fustian, rant, bombast, balderdash, palaver, flummery, verbiage, babble, baverdage, baragouin, platitude, niaiserie; inanity; flap-doodle; rigmarole, rodomontade; truism; nugae canorae; twaddle, twattle, fudge, trash, garbage, humbug; stuff, stuff and nonsense; bosh, rubbish, moonshine, wish-wash, fiddle-faddle; absurdity; vagueness; (unintelligibility). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fustian |
| English words defined with "fustian": Beaverteen, Bombastry ♦ Fustianist ♦ Swans-down. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fustian": Fustian Words ♦ RED FUSTIAN. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "fustian": Fustianist. (references) |
| "Fustian" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 63.64% of the time. "Fustian" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 63.64% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 36.36% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "fustian"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i fryrë (assuming, bloated, bombastic, bulging, bumptious, cock-a-hoop, conceited, extravagant, flatulent, grandiloquent, grandiose, high, highfaluting, high-sounding, hoity toity, inflated, mouthy, orotund, overblown, plethoric, pompous, puffed, puffed up, puffy, sounding, swollen, tumid, turgid, uppish, uppity, vainglorious), cohë e rëndë. (various references) | |
Arabic | فستياني, طنان (bombastic, grandiloquent, orotund, pompous, puffy, resonant, rotund, runic, sonorous, sounding, stilted, tall, tumid, turgid, windy), الفستيان نسيج قطني. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гръмка фраза, надутост (airiness, bombast, flatulence, flatulency, grandiloquence, haughtiness, inflation, magniloquence, pomposity, self-importance, theatricality, uppishness), памучно кадифе (velvet, velveteen), дефтин (velveteen). (various references) | |
Czech | okázalý (ceremonious, flamboyant, florid, glamorous, glamourous, opulent, ostentatious, pompous, spectacular, stately). (various references) | |
Danish | fustian. (various references) | |
Dutch | fustian. (various references) | |
French | futaine. (various references) | |
German | Fustian, schwulst (bombast, floridness, magniloquence, ornateness, pompousness), schwülstig (bombastic, bombastically, grandiloquent, grandiose, overblown, pompous, pompously, prosy, sesquipedalian), bombastisch (bombastic, bombastically, orotund, overdone, pompously, portentous, pretentious, rotund, showy), barchent-, barchent (swansdown). (various references) | |
Greek | κομπαστικόσ (boastful, windy), κοτλέ (corduroy), στόμφοσ (bombast, grandiloquence, magniloquence, pomposity, rant, tumidness, turgidity, turgidness), φούστιαν, είδοσ βαμβακερού υφάσματοσ (madrass). (various references) | |
Hungarian | dagályosság (bombast, flatulence, magniloquence, pomposity, pompousness, redundance, redundancy, rotundity, tympany), barchet. (various references) | |
Indonesian | kata-kata. (various references) | |
Italian | fustagno (moleskin). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ustianfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fustão (swansdown). (various references) | |
Romanian | finet, vorbãrie goalã (buncombe, flippancy, garrulity, jazz, piffle, rant, wash), talmeş-balmeş (confusion, farrago, glory-hole, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hodge-podge, hotchpotch, hurry-scurry, jumble, mix up, muddle, olio, topsy turvy, upside down, welter), stil bombastic, barchet. (various references) | |
Russian | фланель (flannel), фланелевый (flannel). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | porhetski, porhet, naduvenost govora, bombastičan (bombastic, grandiloquent). (various references) | |
Spanish | fustán. (various references) | |
Swedish | värdelös (chaffy, cheesy, crappy, naught, ne'erdoweel, no go, null, punk, straw, trivial, trumpery, useless, valueless, vile, worthless), bombastisk (grandiloquent, mouthy, orotund, overblown), bombasm (bombast), bombasin, billig (brummagem, cheap, economic, economical, fair, flashy, inexpensive, pulp, reasonable). (various references) | |
Turkish | pazen, pamuklu kadife (moleskin, velveteen), dimiden yapılmış, dimi (dimity), şişirme (inflation, overcharge, overstatement, puff, puffery, puffing, puffing up, swelling, tumefaction, turgescence, verbiage), şişirilmiş (blown up, exaggerated, inflated, pompous, puffed up, puffy, swelling, turgescent), abartılı (dithyrambic, exaggerated, fond, hyperbolic, hyperbolical, inflated, magniloquent, ornate, overdone, puffy, slobbery, spread eagle, stagey, stagy, steep, swelling, tall, theatrical, turgescent, turgid, well-rounded), abartı (embroidery, exaggeration, hyperbole, inflation, overstatement, trimmings). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | фланель (flannel), вельвет (velvet), бумазея. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vải bông thô văn sáo, rỗng (bare, empty, high-sounding, vacuous), lời nói khoa trương rỗng tuếch. (various references) | |
Welsh | ffustion. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | fustis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fustian": fustians. (additional references) | |
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"Fustian" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fastian, fatsia, faustian, Festin, fischmann, Fonstein, Fusina, fusliza, fustain, fution, lusatian, lusitano, tustain. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-i-n-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: faints, fusain, unfits. | |
-2 letters: antis, aunts, faint, fauns, fiats, naifs, saint, satin, snafu, stain, suint, tains, tufas, tunas, unais, unfit, units. | |
-3 letters: ains, aits, anis, anti, ants, anus, aunt, fain, fans, fast, fats, faun, fiat, fins, fist, fits, funs, naif, nits, nuts, sain, sati, sift, snit, stun, suit, tain, tans, taus, tins, tufa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-i-n-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: fustians, unfaiths. | |
+2 letters: faunistic, figurants, fountains, fumigants, sulfating, trainfuls, unfairest. | |
+3 letters: faultiness, flauntiest, fulminates, furcations, infatuates, infuriates, insufflate, outfasting, quantifies, sufflating, unsafeties. | |
+4 letters: antifungals, figurations, filamentous, fluorinates, foundations, fruitarians, frustrating, frustration, fumigations, funambulist, fungistatic, fustigating, fustigation, infibulates, insufflated, insufflates, insufflator, latifundios, nitrofurans, obfuscating, obfuscation, outfeasting, painfullest, quantifiers, refutations, suffixation, suffocating, suffocation, sulfonating, sulfonation, transfigure, transfusing, transfusion, unfastening, unsatisfied. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Translations: Ancient 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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