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Bombast
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Meaning
Noun
●
Cotton, or
cotton
wool.
●
Cotton, or any
soft
,
fibrous
material
, used as
stuffing
for
garments
;
stuffing
, padding.
●
High-sounding
words
; language above the
dignity
of the
occasion
; a
pompous
or
ostentatious
manner
of
writing
or speaking.
Verb
●
To
swell
or
fill out
; to
inflate
, to pad.
●
To use
high-sounding
words
; to
speak
or
write in
a
pompous
or
ostentatious
manner.
Adj
●
Big without
meaning
, or
high-sounding
;
bombastic
,
inflated
; magniloquent.
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Synonyms
Fustian
Aureation
Grandiloquence
Aureate
Highfalutin
Bombard Phrase
Purple Prose
Related
Bravado
Braggadocio
Pomposity
Bluster
Buffoonery
Theatrics
Pretension
Showmanship
Pomp
Demagoguery
Grandiosity
Theatricality
Brashness
Rhetoric
Histrionics
Emotionalism
Petulance
Sloganeering
Melodrama
Vulgarity
Invective
Belligerence
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