'Bombastic' definitions:

Definition of 'bombastic'

(from WordNet)
adjective
Ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose" [syn: bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid]

Definition of 'Bombastic'

From: GCIDE
  • Bombastic \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. [1913 Webster]
  • A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
  • Syn: Turgid; tumid; pompous; grandiloquent. [1913 Webster]

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