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, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley