Look up: bombast


  1. Bombast
    Pompous or overblown language.
    Found op http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/glossary_of_poetic_terms.htm

  2. bombast
    [n] - pompous or pretentious talk or writing
    Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=bombast

  3. Bombast
    Bom'bast (bŏm'bȧst or bŭm'bȧst; 277) noun [ Old French bombace cotton, Late Latin bombax cotton, bombasium a doublet of cotton; hence, padding, wadding, fustian. See Bombazine .] 1. ...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/76

  4. Bombast
    Bom'bast adjective High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic. « [ He] evades them with a bombast circumstance, Horribly stuffed with epithets of war. Shak. » « Nor a tall metaphor in bomba...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/76

  5. Bombast
    Bom·bast' (bŏm*bȧst' or bŭm*bȧst') transitive verb To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate. [ Obsolete] « Not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed. Drayton. »
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/76

  6. bombast
    fustian noun pompous or pretentious talk or writing
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=bombast

  7. Bombast
    • (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. • (n.) Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. • (v. t.) To swell or fill out; to ...
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/bombast/

  8. bombast
    bombast 1. Speech too pompous for an occasion; pretentious words. 2. Grandiloquent, pompous speech or writing. 3. Language that is intentionally difficult, usually to make something sound more important than it really is. 4. Inflated or turgid language; high-sounding language on a trivial or comm...
    Found op http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/279/

  9. bombast
    hyperbolic or wildly exaggerating speech, so-called after a kind of cotton stuffing.
    Found op http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display_rpo/terminology.cfm#acatalectic

  10. bombast
    Inflated or high-sounding language. Pistol, from Shakespeare's play Henry V, is characterized by his use of bombastic language: `Let gallows gape for dog; let man go free,/And let not hemp his windpipe suffocate.` can be expressed simply as `Hang dogs but not men`
    Found op http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0038827.html

  11. bombast
    1) Blah 2) Claptrap 3) Fustian 4) Gassy talk 5) Grandiloquence 6) Grandiosity 7) Magniloquence 8) Overblown speech 9) Pompous or overblown language 10) Pompous talk 11) Pretentious talk 12) Rant 13) Rhetoric
    Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/bombast/1

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