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bom·bas·tic    Audio Help   [bom-bas-tik] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
(of speech, writing, etc.) high-sounding; high-flown; inflated; pretentious.
Also, bom·bas·ti·cal.


[Origin: 1695–1705; bombast + -ic]

bom·bas·ti·cal·ly, adverb

pompous, grandiloquent, turgid, florid, grandiose. Bombastic, flowery, pretentious, verbose all describe a use or a user of language more elaborate than is justified by or appropriate to the content being expressed. Bombastic suggests language with a theatricality or staginess of style far too powerful or declamatory for the meaning or sentiment being expressed: a bombastic sermon on the evils of cardplaying. Flowery describes language filled with extravagant images and ornate expressions: a flowery eulogy. Pretentious refers specifically to language that is purposely inflated in an effort to impress: a pretentious essay designed to demonstrate one's sophistication. Verbose characterizes utterances or speakers that use more words than necessary to express an idea: a verbose speech, speaker.
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bom·bast    Audio Help   (bŏm'bāst')  Pronunciation Key 
n.   Grandiloquent, pompous speech or writing.


[Alteration of obsolete bombace, cotton padding, from Old French, from Medieval Latin bombax, bombac-, cotton; see bombazine.]

bom'bast'er n., bom·bas'tic adj., bom·bas'ti·cal·ly adv.
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bombastic

adjective
ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose" 

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Bombastic

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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