blast.
2. abuse, revile, vituperate, oppugn, assail, lash, rail against, inveigh against, Inf.sail into, Inf.jump down [s.o.'s] throat; vilify, traduce, asperse, calumniate, impugn, slur, malign, defame, denigrate, slander, libel, backbite; disparage, discredit, decry, depreciate, deprecate, belittle, minimize, run orput down, SI.bad-mouth; scorn, deride, gibbet, ridicule, mock, lampoon, pasquinade, make fun of.
blasphemous, adj.sacrilegious, profane, irreligious, irreverent, maledictory; unholy, impious, undevout, ungodly, godless; unblest, unsanctified, unconsecrated, unhallowed; wicked, sinful, evil, iniquitous,
blast, n.1. gust, flaw, windflaw, flurry, high or stiff wind, whirlwind; squall, gale, blow, storm, tempest.
2. blare, honk, bellow, bray, blat, trumpet, toot; wail, shriek, screech, scream; peal, clang; noise, racket, din, clamor.
3. explosion, discharge, detonation; crash, roar, boom, burst, eruption; rumble, roll, thunder, fulmina-tion; flash, flare, fulguration; shot, crack, report; volley, salvo, fusillade.
4. blight, curse, bane, scourge, visitation, stroke, affliction; plague, pestilence, pest, infestation.
-v. 5. blare, trumpet, bugle, blat, bray; honk, toot, beep; shriek, screech, scream, wail; sound, peal.
6. ruin, destroy, blight, waste, lay waste, devastate, ravage; annihilate, exterminate, extirpate, eradicate, wipe orblot out.
7. demolish, blow up, blow to pieces, blow sky high; explode, detonate, discharge, go off, burst, boom, thunder, roar.
8. discredit, disprove, invalidate, belie, give the lie to, shoot orpoke full of holes, knock the bottom out of.
9. curse, damn, confound, execrate, imprecate, curse up hill and down dale.
blatant, adj.1. obtrusive, flagrant, glaring, egregious; flaunting, brazen, shameless, arrant, notorious; overt, obvious, manifest, clear, bald, baldfaced; sheer, outright, out-and-out, unmitigated, hard-core.
2. noisy, clamorous, clamant, rackety, obstreperous, vociferous; tumultuous, boisterous, uproarious, roaring, rip-roaring, Inf.honky-tonk.
3. garish, gaudy, tawdry, loud, lurid, screaming; vulgar, coarse, tasteless, crude, crass, cheap, Inf. chintzy.
blather, n.1. drivel, driveling, blether, Inf.blithering; gushing, blabbing, Inf.spouting, excessive talk; babble, babbling, babblement, prate, prating, foolish talk; twaddle, twaddling, Both Brit,
twattle, twattling; prattle, prattling, gibber, gibbering, gibberish; jabber, jabbering, Jabberwocky, SI.gibber-jabbering; nonsense, moonshine, Fr. bavardage,
gobbledegook, hocus-pocus, mumbo-jumbo, abracadabra, open-sesame; humbug, flummery, SI.bunk, rubbish, Inf.rot, SI. garbage, SI.horsefeathers; balderdash, hogwash, stuff and nonsense, Inf.bosh, Brit. SI.
tosh, fudge, foolishness, rigmarole orrigamarole; poppycock, Inf. fiddle-faddle, Inf.piffle, Inf.kibosh, Inf.flapdoodle, -v. 2. blether, Inf.blither, babble; prate, bleat,
twaddle, Brit,
twattle; talk nonsense, Inf.talk through one's hat; drivel, gibber, SI.gibber-jabber, jargon.
3. jabber, chatter, chipper, prattle, cackle, Inf.gab; chit-chat, chitter-chatter, make small talk, chaffer, bandy words; talk idly, SI.shoot the breeze, SI.gas, Si. bull; palaver, clack, clatter, rattle, Si.
run off oron at the mouth; gush, blab, Inf.spout,
blaze, n.1. fire, flame, bonfire, Brit. Dial,
ingle; conflagration, Obs.flagration, holocaust, wildfire, ring orsea of fire, wall orsheet of flames.