Associations to the word «Bombast»
Noun
- Melodrama
- Eloquence
- Absurdity
- Extravagance
- Cher
- Grandeur
- Silhouette
- Rhetoric
- Tremble
- Satire
- Shakespeare
- Breech
- Bonnet
- Wit
- Humphrey
- Boil
- Spoon
- Bonaparte
- Parody
- Boer
- Bolton
- Greene
- Melody
- Carey
- Tragedy
- Verse
- Crow
- Garment
- Praise
- Chorus
- Passion
- Ill
- Feather
- Charm
- Style
- Speech
- Cloth
- Writing
- Von
- Hook
- Width
- Physician
- Emotion
- Fault
- Glory
- Poet
- Imagination
- Critic
- Specimen
- Entertainment
- Poetry
- Tone
- Passage
- Album
- Stuff
- Contrast
- Song
- Tiger
- Magazine
- Arrangement
- Lip
- Review
- Self
Adjective
Wiktionary
BOMBAST, noun. Originally, cotton, or cotton wool.
BOMBAST, noun. Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding.
BOMBAST, noun. (figuratively) High-sounding words; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking; language above the dignity of the occasion.
BOMBAST, verb. To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.
BOMBAST, adjective. High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.
Dictionary definition
BOMBAST, noun. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
Wise words
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and
nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar
words.