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Bombast
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What's The Definition Of Bombast?
[n] pompous or pretentious talk or writing
Synonyms | Synonyms for Bombast: blah | claptrap | fustian | rant Related Terms | Find terms related to Bombast: absurdity | amphigory | babble | babblement | balderdash | bibble-babble | blabber | blather | bluster | boast | boastfulness | boasting | bombastry | brag | braggadocio | braggartism | bragging | bravado | claptrap | conceit | double-talk | drivel | drool | fanfaronade | fiddledeedee | fiddle-faddle | flatulence | flummery | folderol | fudge | fustian | gabble | galimatias | gammon | gasconade | gasconism | gibber | gibberish | gibble-gabble | gobbledygook | grandiloquence | heroics | highfalutin | hocus-pocus | hot air | humbug | jabber | jactation | jactitation | jargon | lexiphanicism | magniloquence | mumbo jumbo | narrishkeit | niaiserie | nonsense | orotundity | pack of nonsense | palaver | prate | prattle | puffery | pyrotechnics | rant | rhapsody | rhetoric | rigamarole | rigmarole | rodomontade | rubbish | sesquipedality | show | side | skimble-skamble | stuff and nonsense | stultiloquence | swagger | trash | trumpery | tumidity | turgidity | twaddle | twattle | twiddle-twaddle | vanity | vaporing | vaunt | vauntery | vaunting | waffling See Also | grandiloquence | grandiosity | magniloquence | rhetoric Bombast In Webster's Dictionary \Bom"bast\ (b[o^]m"b[.a]st or b[u^]m"b[.a]st; 277), n.
[OF. bombace cotton, LL. bombax cotton, bombasium a doublet
of cotton; hence, padding, wadding, fustian. See
{Bombazine}.]
1. Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. [Obs.]
A candle with a wick of bombast. --Lupton.
2. Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing
for garments; stuffing; padding. [Obs.]
How now, my sweet creature of bombast! --Shak.
Doublets, stuffed with four, five, or six pounds of
bombast at least. --Stubbes.
3. Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language
above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.
Yet noisy bombast carefully avoid. --Dryden.
\Bom"bast\, a. High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic. [He] evades them with a bombast circumstance, Horribly stuffed with epithets of war. --Shak. Nor a tall metaphor in bombast way. --Cowley. \Bom*bast"\ (b[o^]m*b[.a]st" or b[u^]m*b[.a]st"), v. t. To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate. [Obs.] Not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed. --Drayton. |
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