Bombast

What do we mean by bombast?

Grandiloquent, pompous speech or writing. noun

Grandiose or overpowering expression, as in music or painting. noun

To pad out; stuff, as a doublet with cotton; hence, to inflate; swell out with high-sounding or bombastic language.

To beat; baste.

Cotton; the cotton-plant. noun

Cotton or other stuff of soft, loose texture, used to stuff garments; padding. noun

Figuratively, high-sounding words; inflated or extravagant language; fustian; speech too big and high-sounding for the occasion. noun

Synonyms Bombast, Fustian, Bathos, Turgidness, Tumidness, Rant. “Bombast was originally applied to a stuff of soft, loose texture, used to swell the garment. Fustian was also a kind of cloth of stiff, expansive character. These terms are applied to a high, swelling style of writing, full of extravagant sentiments and expressions. Bathos is a word which has the same application, meaning generally the mock-heroic—that ‘depth’ into which one falls who overleaps the sublime: the step which one makes in passing from the sublime to the ridiculous.” (De Mille, Elements of Rhetoric, p. 225.) Bombast is rather stronger than fustian. Turgidness and tumidness are words drawn from the swelling of the body, and express mere inflation of style without reference to sentiment. Rant is extravagant or violent language, proceeding from enthusiasm or fanaticism, generally in support of extreme opinions or against those holding opinions of a milder or different sort. noun

High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning.

High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic. adjective

Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. noun

Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding. noun

Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian. noun

To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate. transitive verb

Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. noun

Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding. noun

High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian. noun

To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate. verb

High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic. adjective

Cotton, or cotton wool.

Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing, padding.

High-sounding words; language above the dignity of the occasion; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking.

Self explanatory, usually involving sexual relations Urban Dictionary

Flamboyant,pompous writing or speech Urban Dictionary

When you're doing things beyond necessary that you come off sounding like a snob. Urban Dictionary

(adj) usually used to flaunt the size of one’s penis Urban Dictionary

Means alomst the same as fantastic but better, like a bomb exploding Urban Dictionary

Angry but not expressing it. Urban Dictionary

Bombastic is julie it means you are divine and exquisite and extraordinary and (what my mom said) super pretty Urban Dictionary

Having a pompous or inflated nature that seems unnecessary and tedious with little meaning. Urban Dictionary

A word that was made up to mean "throwing something using extreme force." Urban Dictionary

An awsome word meaning outragiouse, and meaningless speech.... This word is often used between Ty and Anne when quoting the infamouse Billie Joe Armstrong, aka God. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to bombast:
bombast, bumbast, bombas.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word bombast:
melodrama, lyrical, verse, chorus, arrangements, praised, vocal, seems, refers, lyrics, felt, poetry, too, mixed, pop, critics, review, described, yet, you, heavy, voice.

Adjectives that are often used to describe bombast:
mere, such, empty, rhetorical, much, usual, political, patriotic, turgid, sheer, characteristic, mental, less, ridiculous, inflated, theatrical, pure, verbal, typical, romantic, absurd, extravagant, oriental, oratorical, occasional, sheerest, tragic, idle, pompous, military, heroic, spanish, wild, nationalistic, cloudy, emotional, noisy, inimitable, hollow, conventional, windy, revolutionary, silly, declamatory, pretentious, obscure, vain, youthful, vulgar, sentimental, literary, melodramatic, florid, worst, ideological, imperial, truculent, ludicrous, flatulent, pardonable, meaningless, pedantic, furious, foolish, avoid, equal, tawdry, senseless, flagitious, stilted, poetical, baroque, outrageous, grossest, fustian, incredible, customary, thrasonical, false, comic.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective bombast:
way, greatness, rant, circumstance, panegyric, frenzy, actor, cloth, style, words.

Consonant match to bombast:
bumbast.

Words that sound like bombast:
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