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Bombast Definition And Meaning
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. \Bombast"\ (b[o^]mb[.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.

Bombast Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Bombast?

[n] pompous or pretentious talk or writing

Synonyms | Synonyms for Bombast: blah | claptrap | fustian | rant

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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