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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
bombast
n 1: pompous or pretentious talk or writing [syn: bombast,
fustian, rant, claptrap, blah]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Bombast \Bom"bast\ (b[o^]m"b[.a]st or b[u^]m"b[.a]st; 277), n.
[OF. bombace cotton, LL. bombax cotton, bombasium a doublet
of cotton; hence, padding, wadding, fustian. See
Bombazine.]
1. Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. [Obs.]
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A candle with a wick of bombast. --Lupton.
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2. Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing
for garments; stuffing; padding. [Obs.]
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How now, my sweet creature of bombast! --Shak.
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Doublets, stuffed with four, five, or six pounds of
bombast at least. --Stubbes.
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3. Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language
above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.
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Yet noisy bombast carefully avoid. --Dryden.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Bombast \Bom"bast\, a.
High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent;
bombastic.
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[He] evades them with a bombast circumstance,
Horribly stuffed with epithets of war. --Shak.
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Nor a tall metaphor in bombast way. --Cowley.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Bombast \Bom*bast"\ (b[o^]m*b[.a]st" or b[u^]m*b[.a]st"), v. t.
To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate. [Obs.]
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Not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed.
--Drayton.
[1913 Webster] Bombastic
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Thesaurus Results for bombast:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash, bibble-babble, blabber, blather, bluster, boast, boastfulness, boasting, bombastry, brag, braggadocio, braggartism, bragging, bravado, claptrap, conceit, double-talk, drivel, drool, fanfaronade, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flatulence, flummery, folderol, fudge, fustian, gabble, galimatias, gammon, gasconade, gasconism, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gobbledygook, grandiloquence, heroics, highfalutin, hocus-pocus, hot air, humbug, jabber, jactation, jactitation, jargon, lexiphanicism, magniloquence, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsense, orotundity, pack of nonsense, palaver, prate, prattle, puffery, pyrotechnics, rant, rhapsody, rhetoric, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, rubbish, sesquipedality, show, side, skimble-skamble, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, swagger, trash, trumpery, tumidity, turgidity, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vanity, vaporing, vaunt, vauntery, vaunting, waffling |
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Common Misspellings > |
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