Definitions For Fanfaronade

Verb

(intransitive) To engage in empty, self-assertive boasting. (ambitransitive) To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically. : Synonym: trumpet#Verb (intransitive) To make a noisy, showy display or celebration; to play a fanfare.

Noun

FANFARONADE. (countable and uncountable, plural FANFARONADEs) Empty, self-assertive boasting; an instance of such behaviour. Loud, showy display, celebration or proclamation (of something), sometimes involving the playing of trumpets or other musical instruments. : Synonym: blare, blast, fanfare, ostentation

Etymology

From ; other senses influenced by fanfare.

Is Fanfaronade a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
18
Words with Friends
20

The word Fanfaronade is worth 18 points in Scrabble and 20 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Fanfaronade in a Sentence

  • All his talk of how he would easily win the boxing match turned out to be so much fanfaronade

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