About The Word Bombastic
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Bombastic
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What's The Definition Of Bombastic?
[adj] ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Bombastic: declamatory | large | orotund | rhetorical | tumid | turgid Related Terms | Find terms related to Bombastic: aureate | awkward | big | bloated | cramped | cumbrous | declamatory | elephantine | euphuistic | extravagant | flatulent | flowery | forced | formal | fustian | gassy | grandiloquent | grandiose | guinde | halting | heavy | highfalutin | highfaluting | high-flown | high-swelling | inflated | inkhorn | labored | Latinate | leaden | lumbering | magniloquent | mouthy | overblown | pompous | ponderous | pontifical | pretentious | self-important | sesquipedalian | solemn | sonorous | stiff | stilted | stuffy | swollen | tall | tumescent | tumid | turgescent | turgid | unwieldy | windy See Also | Bombastic In Webster's Dictionary \Bom*bas"tic\ (b[o^]m*b[.a]s"t[i^]k or
b[u^]m*b[.a]s"t[i^]k), Bombastical \Bom*bas"tic*al\, a.
Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated. --
{Bom*bas"tic*al*ly}, adv.
A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology. --Burke.
Syn: Turgid; tumid; pompous; grandiloquent.
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