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- Dictionaryrodomontade/ˌrɒdəmɒnˈteɪd/
noun
- 1. boastful or inflated talk or behaviour: "the corrupting effect the vogue for macho rodomontade may have even upon a civilized man"
verb
- 1. talk boastfully: archaic "he soon finds out there's nothing to be gained by rodomontading"
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talk or behaviour that is boastful (= praising yourself too much) or exaggerated (= making something seem bigger or more important than it really is): the rodomontade of the expounders of philosophy. Fewer examples. The President's boastful rodomontade was parodied abroad.
Rodomontade (/ r ɒ d ə m ɒ n ˈ t ɑː d ˌ-ˈ t eɪ d /) is a mass noun meaning boastful talk or behavior. The term is a reference to Rodomonte, a character in the Italian Renaissance epic poem Orlando innamorato and its sequel Orlando furioso.
1. : a bragging speech. 2. : vain boasting or bluster : rant. Did you know? Rodomontade (which can also be spelled rhodomontade) originated in Italian poetry.
Rodomontade definition: vainglorious boasting or bragging; pretentious, blustering talk.. See examples of RODOMONTADE used in a sentence.
1. arrogant boasting or blustering, ranting talk. adjective. 2. arrogantly boastful. verb intransitive Word forms: ˌrodomonˈtaded or ˌrodomonˈtading. 3. to boast; brag. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved. Word origin.
talk or behavior that is boastful (= praising yourself too much) or exaggerated (= making something seem bigger or more important than it really is): the rodomontade of the expounders of philosophy. Fewer examples. The President's boastful rodomontade was parodied abroad.
Definitions of rodomontade. noun. vain and empty boasting. synonyms: bluster, braggadocio, rhodomontade. see more. see less. type of: boast, boasting, jactitation, self-praise. speaking of yourself in superlatives.
