Definition of bombast

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Bombast (n.) Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.

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Tumorous :: Tumorous (a.) Inflated; bombastic.
Rant :: Rant (n.) High-sounding language, without importance or dignity of thought; boisterous, empty declamation; bombast; as, the rant of fanatics..
Tumor :: Tumor (n.) Affected pomp; bombast; swelling words or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity.
Turgent :: Turgent (a.) Inflated; bombastic; turgid; pompous.
Turgescency :: Turgescency (n.) Empty magnificence or pompousness; inflation; bombast; turgidity.
Lexiphanic :: Lexiphanic (a.) Using, or interlarded with, pretentious words; bombastic; as, a lexiphanic writer or speaker; lexiphanic writing..
Declamatory :: Declamatory (a.) Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic; noisy; as, a declamatory way or style..
Bombastic :: Bombastic (a.) Alt. of Bombastica.
Bombast :: Bombast (n.) Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding..
High-flown :: High-flown (a.) Turgid; extravagant; bombastic; inflated; as, high-flown language..
Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant; as, swelling words; a swelling style..
Highfaluting :: Highfaluting (n.) High-flown, bombastic language..
Grandiloquence :: Grandiloquence (n.) The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense.
Inflated :: Inflated (a.) Turgid; swelling; puffed up; bombastic; pompous; as, an inflated style..
Gigantesque :: Gigantesque (a.) Befitting a giant; bombastic; magniloquent.
Carmagnole :: Carmagnole (n.) A bombastic report from the French armies.
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..
Grandiose :: Grandiose (a.) Characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor; flaunting; turgid; bombastic; -- in a bad sense; as, a grandiose style..
Bombast :: Bombast (a.) High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.
Periergy :: Periergy (n.) A bombastic or labored style.
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