Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bombastic"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Bombastic \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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

bombastic
adj : ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk";
"tumid political prose" [syn: {declamatory}, {large}, {orotund},
{tumid}, {turgid}]


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