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Bombast

Bombast Meaning & Definition
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.
\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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