Associations to the word «Bombast»
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
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?