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32 words match “BOMBAST”

BOMBAST n. 5 definitions

Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. [Obs.] A candle with a wick of bombast. Lupton.

BOMBASTIC; BOMBASTICAL a.

Characterized by bombast; highsounding; inflated. -- Bom*bas"tic*al*ly, adv. A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology. Burke.

Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian. Bombastry and buffoonery, by nature lofty and light, soar highest of all. Swift.

Padded breeches. [Obs.] Bombard phrase, inflated language; bombast. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

See Bombast. [Obs.]

A bombastic report from the French armies.

terized by rhetorical display; pretentiously rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic; noisy; as, a declamatory way or style.

FUSTIAN n. 2 definitions

ng in which high- sounding words are used,' above the dignity of the thoughts or subject; bombast. Claudius . . . has run his description into the most wretched fustian. Addison.

Befitting a giant; bombastic; magniloquent. The sort of mock-heroic gigantesque With which we bantered little Lilia first. Tennyson.

GRANDILOQUENCE n.

The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense. The sin of grandiloquence or tall talking. Thackeray,

GRANDILOQUENT a.

Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.

Characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor; flaunting; turgid; bombastic; -- in a bad sense; as, a grandiose style.

Turgid; extravagant; bombastic; inflated; as, high-flown language. M. Arnold.

HIGHFALUTING n.

High-flown, bombastic language. [Written also hifalutin.] [Jocular, U. S.] Lowell.

Turgid; swelling; puffed up; bombastic; pompous; as, an inflated style. Inflated and astrut with self-conceit. Cowper.

Using, or interlarded with, pretentious words; bombastic; as, a lexiphanic writer or speaker; lexiphanic writing.

MAGNILOQUENT a.

Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent. -- Mag*nil"o*quent*ly, adv.

A bombastic literary style marked by the use of metaphors and antitheses characteristic of the Italian poet Giambattista Marini (1569-1625). -- Ma*ri"nist (#), n.

A bombastic or labored style. [R.]

Hence, inflated; bombastic; as, a puffy style.