'Bombast' definitions:
Definition of 'bombast'
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Definition of 'Bombast'
From: GCIDE
- Bombast \Bom"bast\ (b[o^]m"b[.a]st or b[u^]m"b[.a]st; 277), n. [OF. bombace cotton, LL. bombax cotton, bombasium a doublet of cotton; hence, padding, wadding, fustian. See Bombazine.]
- 1. Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- A candle with a wick of bombast. --Lupton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- How now, my sweet creature of bombast! --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Doublets, stuffed with four, five, or six pounds of bombast at least. --Stubbes. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian. [1913 Webster]
- Yet noisy bombast carefully avoid. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bombast'
From: GCIDE
- Bombast \Bom"bast\, a. High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic. [1913 Webster]
- [He] evades them with a bombast circumstance, Horribly stuffed with epithets of war. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Nor a tall metaphor in bombast way. --Cowley. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bombast'
From: GCIDE
- Bombast \Bom*bast"\ (b[o^]m*b[.a]st" or b[u^]m*b[.a]st"), v. t. To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed. --Drayton. [1913 Webster] Bombastic
Synonyms of 'bombast'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absurdity,
- amphigory,
- babble,
- babblement,
- balderdash,
- bibble-babble,
- blabber,
- blather,
- bluster,
- boast,
- boastfulness,
- boasting,
- bombastry,
- brag,
- braggadocio,
- braggartism,
- bragging,
- bravado,
- claptrap,
- conceit,
- double-talk,
- drivel,
- drool,
- fanfaronade,
- fiddle-faddle,
- fiddledeedee,
- flatulence,
- flummery,
- folderol,
- fudge,
- fustian,
- gabble,
- galimatias,
- gammon,
- gasconade,
- gasconism,
- gibber,
- gibberish,
- gibble-gabble,
- gobbledygook,
- grandiloquence,
- heroics,
- highfalutin,
- hocus-pocus,
- hot air,
- humbug,
- jabber,
- jactation,
- jactitation,
- jargon,
- lexiphanicism,
- magniloquence,
- mumbo jumbo,
- narrishkeit,
- niaiserie,
- nonsense,
- orotundity,
- pack of nonsense,
- palaver,
- prate,
- prattle,
- puffery,
- pyrotechnics,
- rant,
- rhapsody,
- rhetoric,
- rigamarole,
- rigmarole,
- rodomontade,
- rubbish,
- sesquipedality,
- show,
- side,
- skimble-skamble,
- stuff and nonsense,
- stultiloquence,
- swagger,
- trash,
- trumpery,
- tumidity,
- turgidity,
- twaddle,
- twattle,
- twiddle-twaddle,
- vanity,
- vaporing,
- vaunt,
- vauntery,
- vaunting,
- waffling