Bombastic
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated; extravagant.
Synonyms
Swelling, tumid, stilted, pompous, lofty, grandiloquent, high-flown.
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adjective.
Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
adjective.
Pompous
or overly
wordy
.
adjective.
High-sounding but with little meaning.
adjective.
Inflated
, overfilled.
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adjective.
ostentatiously lofty in style
Word Usage
"Indonesian Forestry Ministry spokesman Ahmad Fauzi Masyhud said his office has not yet received the report, which he described as "bombastic.""
Antonyms
Words with the opposite meaning
modest
Equivalent
rhetorical
Rhyme
Words with the same terminal sound
anaplastic
desmoplastic
drastic
dynastic
ecclesiastic
Same Context
Words that are found in similar contexts
boastful
colloquial
cumbrous
declamatory
flippant
Synonym
Words with the same meaning
Johnsonian
Latinate
aureate
awkward
big