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(brəvɑːdoʊ)
uncountable noun
Bravado is an appearance of courage or confidence that someone shows in order to impress other people.
'You won't get away with this,' he said with unexpected bravado.
Synonyms: swagger, boast, boasting, swaggering More Synonyms of bravado

bravado in British English

(brəˈvɑːdəʊ)
nounWord forms: plural -does or -dos
vaunted display of courage or self-confidence; swagger
Word origin
C16: from Spanish bravada (modern bravata), from Old Italian bravare to challenge, provoke, from bravo wild, brave

bravado in American English

(brəˈvɑdoʊ)
noun
pretended courage or defiant confidence when one is really afraid
Word origin
altered < Sp bravada < bravo, UNRESOLVED CROSS REF

Examples of 'bravado' in a sentence
bravado

He has a confidence and a bravado that gives me confidence in him.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
He has exhibited no swagger or bravado about what happened and represents a low risk of reoffending.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
It is amazing where male bravado can get you.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Unless you give some sort of rough chance, your apparent confidence is just bravado.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
This could have been an empty sort of tale, full of bravado and male hormones.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Yet all the horror seems a disgusting display of bravado, disconnected from the men themselves.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
His arrogant courtroom displays of bravado ended when he reached the high-security jail.
The Sun (2013)
You might dismiss that as youthful bravado, only he is so good at his chosen sport.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
You have bravado, a false confidence at that age.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
And how much, anyway, was male bravado an attempt to impress his teenage daughters?
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Whether it's youthful bravado or not, we ignore this warning at our peril.
The Sun (2007)
In my early days, I was good at covering up my genuine fears and insecurities with sheer bravado.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
If there is one lesson that comes through loud and clear in Everest, it is that confidence and bravado are not enough to cheat death.
Christianity Today (2000)

In other languages
bravado

British English: bravado NOUN
Bravado is an appearance of courage or confidence that someone shows in order to impress other people.
'You won't get away with this,' he said with unexpected bravado.
  • American English: bravado
  • Brazilian Portuguese: bravata
  • Chinese: 故作勇敢
  • European Spanish: fanfarronería
  • French: bravade
  • German: Draufgängertum
  • Italian: spavalderia
  • Japanese: 空いばり
  • Korean: 허세
  • European Portuguese: bravata
  • Latin American Spanish: fanfarronería

(noun) 
Definition
an outward display of self-confidence
The threats may be an act of bravado.
Synonyms
swagger
What he needed was confidence and a bit of swagger.
boast
boasting
swaggering
vaunting
bluster
the bluster of their campaign
swashbuckling
bombast
There were men aboard who could not tolerate his bombast.
braggadocio
boastfulness
fanfaronade (rare)

Additional synonyms

in the sense of bluster
Definition
empty threats or protests
the bluster of their campaign
Synonyms
hot air,
boasting,
bluff,
swagger,
swaggering (informal),
swag (slang),
bravado,
bombast
in the sense of bombast
Definition
pompous and flowery language
There were men aboard who could not tolerate his bombast.
Synonyms
pomposity,
ranting,
bragging,
hot air (informal),
bluster,
grandiosity,
braggadocio,
grandiloquence,
rodomontade (literary),
gasconade (rare),
extravagant boasting,
magniloquence

Nearby words of
bravado

  • brass
  • brassy
  • brat
  • bravado
  • brave
  • bravery
  • bravo

Synonyms of 'bravado'

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