Definition of bombast

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Bombast (n.) Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding..

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Bombast :: Bombast (v. t.) To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.
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..
Highfaluting :: Highfaluting (n.) High-flown, bombastic language..
Tumor :: Tumor (n.) Affected pomp; bombast; swelling words or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity.
Stiltify :: Stilted (a.) Elevated as if on stilts; hence, pompous; bombastic; as, a stilted style; stilted declamation..
Bombast :: Bombast (a.) High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.
Spreader :: Spread-eagle (a.) Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech..
Teratology :: Teratology (n.) Affectation of sublimity; bombast.
Magniloquent :: Magniloquent (a.) Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent.
Rant :: Rant (n.) High-sounding language, without importance or dignity of thought; boisterous, empty declamation; bombast; as, the rant of fanatics..
Bumbast :: Bumbast () See Bombast.
Bombastic :: Bombastic (a.) Alt. of Bombastica.
Bombastry :: Bombastry (n.) Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian.
Grandiloquent :: Grandiloquent (a.) Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.
Inflated :: Inflated (a.) Turgid; swelling; puffed up; bombastic; pompous; as, an inflated style..
Grandiose :: Grandiose (a.) Characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor; flaunting; turgid; bombastic; -- in a bad sense; as, a grandiose style..
Lexiphanic :: Lexiphanic (a.) Using, or interlarded with, pretentious words; bombastic; as, a lexiphanic writer or speaker; lexiphanic writing..
Carmagnole :: Carmagnole (n.) A bombastic report from the French armies.
Tympany :: Tympany (n.) Hence, inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness..
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