'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]
Synonyms of 'bombastic'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aureate,
- awkward,
- big,
- bloated,
- cramped,
- cumbrous,
- declamatory,
- elephantine,
- euphuistic,
- extravagant,
- flatulent,
- flowery,
- forced,
- formal,
- fustian,
- gassy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- guinde,
- halting,
- heavy,
- high-flown,
- high-swelling,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- labored,
- Latinate,
- leaden,
- lumbering,
- magniloquent,
- mouthy,
- overblown,
- pompous,
- ponderous,
- pontifical,
- pretentious,
- self-important,
- sesquipedalian,
- solemn,
- sonorous,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- stuffy,
- swollen,
- tall,
- tumescent,
- tumid,
- turgescent,
- turgid,
- unwieldy,
- windy