Another word for bombastic
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Adjective
Characterized by language that is elevated and sometimes pompous in style
- Expanded by or as if by internal pressure; distended:
- Overblown; bombastic:
- Having or producing sound.
- Having or producing a full, deep, or rich sound.
- Impressive in style of speech:
- Of or relating to rhetoric.
- Characterized by overelaborate or bombastic rhetoric.
- Used for persuasive effect:
- Excessive, exaggerated, or overdone:
- Full of empty or pretentious language; bombastic:
- Pompous and bombastic:
- Full in sound; sonorous:
- Lofty and extravagant in speech; grandiloquent.
- Pretentiously impressive; pompous:
- Exceedingly lofty or exalted:
- Highly pretentious or inflated:
- using high-flown, pompous, bombastic words and expressions
- A coarse sturdy cloth made of cotton and linen or flax.
- Any of several thick twilled cotton fabrics, such as corduroy, having a short nap.
- Pretentious speech or writing; pompous language.
- Of, relating to, or suggestive of flowers:
- Abounding in or covered with flowers.
- Full of ornate or grandiloquent expressions; highly embellished:
- Having the quality of a declamation.
- Pretentiously rhetorical; bombastic.
- Of a golden color; gilded.
- Inflated and pompous in style.
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Another word for bombastic
Modifier
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- Of, afflicted with, or caused by flatulence.
- Inducing or generating flatulence.
- Pompous; bloated.
- Excessively ornate or complex in style or language; grandiloquent:
- Swollen or distended, as from a fluid; bloated:
- of, having the nature of, or characterized by euphuism
- Lofty and extravagant in speech; grandiloquent.
- Excessive, exaggerated, or overdone:
- Full of empty or pretentious language; bombastic:
- Excessively nervous or excited; agitated.
- Extremely elaborate or ornate; overdone:
- Characterized by or given to ostentation.
- Claiming that or behaving as if one is important or deserving of merit when such is not the case:
- Showing or betraying an attitude of superiority:
- Marked by an extravagant or presumptuous outward show; ostentatious:
- Flushed with rosy color; ruddy.
- Very ornate; flowery:
- Healthy.
- Of, relating to, or suggestive of flowers:
- Abounding in or covered with flowers.
- Full of ornate or grandiloquent expressions; highly embellished:
- A coarse sturdy cloth made of cotton and linen or flax.
- Any of several thick twilled cotton fabrics, such as corduroy, having a short nap.
- Pretentious speech or writing; pompous language.
- Exceedingly lofty or exalted:
- Highly pretentious or inflated:
- Pretentiously impressive; pompous:
- Of or relating to rhetoric.
- Characterized by overelaborate or bombastic rhetoric.
- Used for persuasive effect:
- Characterized by greatness of scope or intent; grand:
- Characterized by excessive self-importance or affected grandeur; pompous:
- Filled or expanded by or as if by gas or air.
- Unduly enlarged or aggrandized; swollen:
- Full of empty or pretentious language; bombastic.
- Of imposing height.
- Elevated in character; exalted.
- Affecting grandness; pompous.
- Pompous and bombastic:
- Full in sound; sonorous:
- using high-flown, pompous, bombastic words and expressions
- Having the quality of a declamation.
- Pretentiously rhetorical; bombastic.
- Characterized by excessive self-esteem or exaggerated dignity; pretentious:
- Full of high-sounding phrases; bombastic:
- Characterized by pomp or stately display:
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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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