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 - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne