Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to bloviate
Participle: bloviated
Gerund: bloviating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | bloviate |
| you | bloviate |
| he;she;it | bloviates |
| we | bloviate |
| you | bloviate |
| they | bloviate |
Perfect
| I | have bloviated |
| you | have bloviated |
| he;she;it | has bloviated |
| we | have bloviated |
| you | have bloviated |
| they | have bloviated |
Past
| I | bloviated |
| you | bloviated |
| he;she;it | bloviated |
| we | bloviated |
| you | bloviated |
| they | bloviated |
Pluperfect
| I | had bloviated |
| you | had bloviated |
| he;she;it | had bloviated |
| we | had bloviated |
| you | had bloviated |
| they | had bloviated |
Future
| I | will bloviate |
| you | will bloviate |
| he;she;it | will bloviate |
| we | will bloviate |
| you | will bloviate |
| they | will bloviate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have bloviated |
| you | will have bloviated |
| he;she;it | will have bloviated |
| we | will have bloviated |
| you | will have bloviated |
| they | will have bloviated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | bloviate |
| you | bloviate |
| he;she;it | bloviate |
| we | bloviate |
| you | bloviate |
| they | bloviate |
Perfect
| I | have bloviated |
| you | have bloviated |
| he;she;it | have bloviated |
| we | have bloviated |
| you | have bloviated |
| they | have bloviated |
Imperfect
| I | bloviated |
| you | bloviated |
| he;she;it | bloviated |
| we | bloviated |
| you | bloviated |
| they | bloviated |
Pluperfect
| I | had bloviated |
| you | had bloviated |
| he;she;it | had bloviated |
| we | had bloviated |
| you | had bloviated |
| they | had bloviated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would bloviate |
| you | would bloviate |
| he;she;it | would bloviate |
| we | would bloviate |
| you | would bloviate |
| they | would bloviate |
Perfect
| I | would have bloviated |
| you | would have bloviated |
| he;she;it | would have bloviated |
| we | would have bloviated |
| you | would have bloviated |
| they | would have bloviated |
Imperative
| you | bloviate |
| we | Let's bloviate |
| you | bloviate |
Verbs conjugated like 'bloviate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'bloviate'
breviate,
eluviate,
obliviate,
alleviate,
alluviate,
aviate,
bilocate,
blate,
bloat,
blockade,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1845, US, Ohio, from blow (“speak idly, boast”) + -i- + -ate, by analogy with deviate.
Sample Sentences
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Peter P. Low, Esq., will with open throat…bloviate about the farmers being taxed upon the full value of their farms, while bankers are released from taxation. [1845 October 14, Huron Reflector, Norwalk, Ohio:]
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His passion when bloviating was furious and terrible to look upon; but there was nothing to it more than sound and pretense. [1887, James O'Meara, The Vigilance Committee of '56:]
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“The cost of appearing with this bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me,” he said on “This Week,” the ABC News program. [2012 May 31, Clyde Haberman, quoting George F. Will, “Trying to Solve the Great Trump Mystery”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 Jun 2024:]
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And in turn, more complex ones: could his son have become Boris Johnson, bloviating commentator and one-time prime minister of Britain, without one [a nanny]? [2023 April 29, Lou Stoppard, “Inside the world of the elite nanny”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC:]