Bombast

Quick meaning: Bombast is a noun meaning (figurative) High-sounding words; language above the dignity of the occasion; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. To swell or fill out; to inflate, to pad.
2. To use high-sounding words; to speak or write in a pompous or ostentatious manner.
3. Big without meaning, or high-sounding; bombastic, inflated; magniloquent.
4. (archaic) Cotton, or cotton wool.
5. (archaic) Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing, padding.

Example Sentences

Bombaſt and Buffoonry, by Nature lofty and light, ſoar higheſt of all, [...]

At least for one night, Donald Trump put aside the bombast and bellicosity of a campaign that seemed to bleed into his presidency.

Heere comes leane Iacke, heere comes bare-bone. How now my ſweet Creature of Bombaſt, how long is't agoe, Iacke, ſince thou ſaw'ſt thine owne Knee?

And let burleſque in ballads be employ'd; / Yet noiſy bombaſt carefully avoid, / Nor think to raiſe, tho on Pharſalia's plain, "Millions of mourning mountains of the ſlain:" [...]

Word Forms

• bombasts
• bombasting
• bombasted

Synonyms for bombast

Depending on context, synonyms include fustian, aureation, grandiloquence, aureate, highfalutin, rant.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fustian, rant, blah, claptrap, bombastry, tympany.

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