Bombastic

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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           A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology. --Burke.
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     Syn: Turgid; tumid; pompous; grandiloquent.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  53 Moby Thesaurus words for "bombastic":
     Latinate, aureate, awkward, big, bloated, cramped, cumbrous,
     declamatory, elephantine, euphuistic, extravagant, flatulent,
     flowery, forced, formal, fustian, gassy, grandiloquent, grandiose,
     guinde, halting, heavy, high-flown, high-swelling, highfalutin,
     highfaluting, inflated, inkhorn, labored, leaden, lumbering,
     magniloquent, mouthy, overblown, pompous, ponderous, pontifical,
     pretentious, self-important, sesquipedalian, solemn, sonorous,
     stiff, stilted, stuffy, swollen, tall, tumescent, tumid,
     turgescent, turgid, unwieldy, windy