Definitions for: Bombastic


[adj] ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"



Webster (1913) Definition: Bom*bas"tic (b[o^]m*b[.a]s"t[i^]k or
b[u^]m*b[.a]s"t[i^]k), Bombastical Bom*bas"tic*al, a.
Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated. --
Bom*bas"tic*al*ly, adv.

A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology. --Burke.

Syn: Turgid; tumid; pompous; grandiloquent.

Synonyms: declamatory, large, orotund, rhetorical, tumid, turgid

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