Word: Bluff
How to pronounce: blʌf
Noun
Definitions:
1. An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
Example sentences: "The offer was denounced as a bluff"
Intransitive verb
Definitions:
1. Try to deceive someone as to one's abilities or intentions.
Example sentences: "He's been bluffing all along"
Adjective
Definitions:
1. Direct in speech or behavior but in a good-natured way.
Example sentences: "A big, bluff, hearty man"
Noun
Definitions:
1. A steep cliff, bank, or promontory.
Example sentences: "Planning the campaign involved myriad geographical factors, including the Mississippi Delta region, streams of various navigabilities, steep banks, and bluffs northeast of the city."
2. A grove or clump of trees.
Example sentences: "A couple of miles north and south the trees thicken up and the farms all have bluffs of trees on them so it is quite scenic."
Adjective
Definitions:
1. (of a cliff or a ship's bow) having a vertical or steep broad front.
Example sentences: "Half the barges were away, already sweeping downriver with thin, white mustaches under their bluff bows, when a commotion awoke ashore."
Synonyms:
sheer
cliff
rock
trick
sham
fake
intimidate
fool
blunt
delude
mislead
bamboozle
cozen
beguile
hoodwink
dupe
abrupt
humbug
hoax
con
simulate
dissemble
brusque
bold
Derivations:
bluffing
bluffy
bluffer
bluffed
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Spanish: Bluff
German: Bluff
French: Bluff
Italian: Bluff
Turkish: Blöf
