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bombast

UK /ˈbɒmbæst/US /ˈbɑmbæst/

noun 3
verb 2
adjective 1
forms 5

noun3

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High-sounding words; language above the dignity of the occasion; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking.
- Bombast and Buffoonry, by Nature lofty and light, soar highest of all, [...] — 1704
(no longer used) Cotton, or cotton wool.
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(no longer used) Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing, padding.
- Heere comes leane Iacke, heere comes bare-bone. How now my sweet Creature of Bombast, how long is't agoe, Iacke, since thou saw'st thine owne Knee? — 1597

verb2

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To use high-sounding words; to speak or write in a pompous or ostentatious manner.
- [']The ugly truth is, Gerald,' she said viciously, 'that you're a phoney, a rotten, bombasting phoney, trying to cover up from all the world,[…]['] — 1968
To swell or fill out; to inflate, to pad.

adjective1

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Big without meaning, or high-sounding; bombastic, inflated; magniloquent.
- But he (as louing his owne pride, and purposes) / Euades them, with a bumbast Circumstance, / Horribly stufft with Epithites of warre, / Non-suites my Mediators. — 1603

forms

bombasted · bombasting · bombasts · more bombast · most bombast

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