Bombast

Definition:

  • (n.) Originally, cotton, or cotton wool.
  • (n.) Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding.
  • (n.) Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.
  • (a.) High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.
  • (v. t.) To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.

Compare bombast with other words:

bombast vs. bumbast

bombast vs. rhetoric

bombast vs. grandiosity

boast vs. bombast

bombast vs. pomposity

bluster vs. bombast

bombast vs. tympany

blah vs. bombast

bombast vs. bombastic

bombast vs. magniloquent

bombast vs. fibrous

bombast vs. cotton

bombast vs. fustian