Definition of bombast

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Bombast (n.) Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.

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Gigantesque :: Gigantesque (a.) Befitting a giant; bombastic; magniloquent.
Declamatory :: Declamatory (a.) Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic; noisy; as, a declamatory way or style..
Bombastical :: Bombastical (a.) Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated.
Rant :: Rant (v. i.) To rave in violent, high-sounding, or extravagant language, without dignity of thought; to be noisy, boisterous, and bombastic in talk or declamation; as, a ranting preacher..
Stiltify :: Stilted (a.) Elevated as if on stilts; hence, pompous; bombastic; as, a stilted style; stilted declamation..
Fustian :: Fustian (a.) Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history..
Tumid :: Tumid (a.) Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid expression; a tumid style..
Grandiloquent :: Grandiloquent (a.) Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.
Fustian :: Fustian (n.) An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high-sounding words are used,' above the dignity of the thoughts or subject; bombast..
Turgent :: Turgent (a.) Inflated; bombastic; turgid; pompous.
Puffy :: Puffy (a.) Hence, inflated; bombastic; as, a puffy style..
Carmagnole :: Carmagnole (n.) A bombastic report from the French armies.
Turgescency :: Turgescency (n.) Empty magnificence or pompousness; inflation; bombast; turgidity.
Bombast :: Bombast (a.) High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.
High-flown :: High-flown (a.) Turgid; extravagant; bombastic; inflated; as, high-flown language..
Bombastry :: Bombastry (n.) Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian.
Lexiphanic :: Lexiphanic (a.) Using, or interlarded with, pretentious words; bombastic; as, a lexiphanic writer or speaker; lexiphanic writing..
Bumbast :: Bumbast () See Bombast.
Inflated :: Inflated (a.) Turgid; swelling; puffed up; bombastic; pompous; as, an inflated style..
Bombast :: Bombast (v. t.) To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.
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