Thesaurus: bombast

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1. n. Originally, cotton, or cotton wool.
2. n. Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding.
3. n. Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.
4. a. High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.
5. v. t. To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.
6. n. pompous or pretentious talk or writing
7. 1. Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. [Obs.] A candle with a wick of bombast. Lupton. 2. Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding. [Obs.] How now, my sweet creature of bombast! Shak. Doublets, stuffed with four, five, or six pounds of bombast at least. Stubbes. 3. Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian. Yet noisy bombast carefully avoid. Dryden. High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic. [He] evades them with a bombast circumstance, Horribly stuffed with epithets of war. Shak. Nor a tall metaphor in bombast way. Cowley. To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate. [Obs.] Not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed. Drayton.
8. High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent;bombastic.[He] evades them with a bombast circumstance,Horribly stuffed with epithets of war. Shak.Nor a tall metaphor in bombast way. Cowley.
9. n:100 n. pompous or pretentious talk or writing