Meaning of BOMBASTIC
| Pronunciation: | | bâm'bastik
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| | Definition: | | [adj] ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose" |
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| | Synonyms: | | declamatory, large, orotund, rhetorical, tumid, turgid |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | 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.
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| | Related Terms: | | aureate, awkward, big, bloated, cramped, cumbrous, declamatory, elephantine, euphuistic, extravagant, flatulent, flowery, forced, formal, fustian, gassy, grandiloquent, grandiose, guinde, halting, heavy, highfalutin, highfaluting, high-flown, high-swelling, inflated, inkhorn, labored, Latinate, 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 |
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