Definition of bombast

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Bombast (n.) Originally, cotton, or cotton wool..

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Bumbast :: Bumbast () See Bombast.
Bombastry :: Bombastry (n.) Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian.
Bombast :: Bombast (n.) Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.
Fustian :: Fustian (n.) An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high-sounding words are used,' above the dignity of the thoughts or subject; bombast..
Teratology :: Teratology (n.) Affectation of sublimity; bombast.
Tumorous :: Tumorous (a.) Inflated; bombastic.
Grandiose :: Grandiose (a.) Characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor; flaunting; turgid; bombastic; -- in a bad sense; as, a grandiose style..
Turgent :: Turgent (a.) Inflated; bombastic; turgid; pompous.
Highfaluting :: Highfaluting (n.) High-flown, bombastic language..
Stiltify :: Stilted (a.) Elevated as if on stilts; hence, pompous; bombastic; as, a stilted style; stilted declamation..
Lexiphanic :: Lexiphanic (a.) Using, or interlarded with, pretentious words; bombastic; as, a lexiphanic writer or speaker; lexiphanic writing..
Bombast :: Bombast (a.) High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.
Bombastical :: Bombastical (a.) Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated.
Spreader :: Spread-eagle (a.) Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech..
Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant; as, swelling words; a swelling style..
Grandiloquence :: Grandiloquence (n.) The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense.
Declamatory :: Declamatory (a.) Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic; noisy; as, a declamatory way or style..
Gigantesque :: Gigantesque (a.) Befitting a giant; bombastic; magniloquent.
Rant :: Rant (v. i.) To rave in violent, high-sounding, or extravagant language, without dignity of thought; to be noisy, boisterous, and bombastic in talk or declamation; as, a ranting preacher..
Bombast :: Bombast (n.) Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding..
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