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Another word for bombastic

Adjective

  1. Characterized by language that is elevated and sometimes pompous in style

    2. See also:

    words

    style

    plain

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Synonym Study

  • Turgid implies such inflation of style as to obscure meaning
  • Euphuistic is applied to an extremely artificial style of writing in which there is a straining for effect at the expense of thought
  • Flowery language is full of figurative and ornate expressions and high-sounding words
  • Grandiloquent suggests an overreaching eloquence and implies the use of grandiose, high-flown language and an oratorical tone
  • Bombastic refers to speech or writing that is pompous and inflated and suggests extravagant verbal padding and little substance
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Sentence Examples

  • His most important poem is Wladystaus IV., King of Poland, in which he sings in a very bombastic strain the various expeditions of the Polish monarch.

  • This is a singular prose poem, in language sometimes rather bombastic but often beautiful.

  • Domentiyan wrote a life of St Sava in the involved and bombastic Byzantine style of the middle of the 13th century.

  • During the early years of the Revolution he issued several pamphlets against Mirabeau, who returned his ill-will with interest, calling him "the ignorant and bombastic M.

  • A flattering and bombastic dedication to Theodosius II.

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