Associations to the word «Bombastic»

Wiktionary

BOMBASTIC, adjective. (of a person, their language or writing) showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous
BOMBASTIC, adjective. High-sounding but with little meaning.
BOMBASTIC, adjective. (archaic) Inflated, overfilled.

Dictionary definition

BOMBASTIC, adjective. Ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats