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Bombastic

//bɒmˈbæs.tɪk// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous

    "Dorsett came up the stairs, buggy whip in hand. He bustled into the office in his usual self-important way. Frank noticed that the old clerk sat down on him promptly. He was not one bit impressed with the bombastic visitor from Greenville."

  2. 2
    High-sounding but with little meaning.
  3. 3
    Inflated, overfilled. archaic
Adjective
  1. 1
    ostentatiously lofty in style wordnet

Etymology

From bombast (“padding, stuffing”) + -ic, 18th century. Sense evolution possibly influenced by unrelated bomb and bombard; see also bombard phrase.

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