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語源

From French bravade (“bragging or boasting”), from Italian bravata, from verb bravare (“brag, boast”), from bravo. Compare bravura.

発音

• IPA: /bɹɑˈvɑdoʊ/, /bɹəˈvɑdoʊ/
• 韻: -ɑːdəʊ

名詞

bravado (countable and uncountable, plural bravados or bravadoes)

1. A swaggering show of defiance or courage.

   The angry customer stood in the middle of the showroom and voiced his complaints with loud bravado.

   • 1891, Rosa Mulholland, The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly, page 12:

     For a bravado he had the organ taken down and conveyed to his father's house, where he had it put up in the chamber where it now stands. It was also for a bravado that he played on it every day. But, by−and−by, the amount of time which he spent at it daily began to increase rapidly.

   • 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 47:

     Rokoff assumed a truculent air, attempting by bravado to show how little he feared Tarzan’s threats.

   • 1990 Amy Longsdorf, K.T. Oslin: Personality, Wit and Style To Spare", The Morning Call[1]

     Songs like "Hey Bobby", and "Do Ya" drip with innuendo and sexual bravado.

   • 2019 May 12, Alex McLevy, “Westeros faces a disastrous final battle on the penultimate Game of Thrones (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club‎, archived from the original on 15 May 2019:

     Stripped of all bravado, Cersei breaks, and shows the very scared, vulnerable woman who has kept her emotions at bay. “I don’t want to die,” she whimpers, “Not like this.” It’s all the more moving for coming from a character who built her identity on steely resolve and contempt for such hoary conceits as fear.

   • 2023 February 11, Katharine Gammon, “A mountain of trouble? The draw – and danger – of California’s Mount Baldy”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     The rise of SOS devices – satellite-synched gadgets that send a signal to rescue agencies when activated – give people bravado, Estrada says. “A lot of people carry these SOS devices and they think they can get into any trouble and they can get help,” he says, adding that he has seen more requests for assistance recently.

   • 2023 April 2, Dan Sabbagh, Ed Ram, “Surrounded and outgunned, Ukraine’s tank crews prepare for battle of Bakhmut”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     No doubt there is fear despite the bravado, but there is also no significant loss of Ukrainian military cohesion.

   • 2025 September 22, Vivek Viswanathan, “The Art of the Decline”, in The Atlantic‎, archived from the original on 22 September 2025:

     Behind the display of bravado, Trump must surely have sensed that his approach to foreign policy was catching up with him.

2. A superficial show of courage. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (obsolete) A swaggerer; a braggart.

動詞

bravado (third-person singular simple present bravados, present participle bravadoing, simple past and past participle bravadoed)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To swagger; to brag.