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[syn: bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bombastic \Bom*bas"tic\ (b[o^]m*b[.a]s"t[i^]k or
b[u^]m*b[.a]s"t[i^]k), Bombastical \Bom*bas"tic*al\, a.
Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated. --
Bom*bas"tic*al*ly, adv.
[1913 Webster]
A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology. --Burke.
[1913 Webster]
Syn: Turgid; tumid; pompous; grandiloquent.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
bombastic
adj 1: ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large
talk"; "tumid political prose" [syn: bombastic,
declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
53 Moby Thesaurus words for "bombastic":
Latinate, aureate, awkward, big, bloated, cramped, cumbrous,
declamatory, elephantine, euphuistic, extravagant, flatulent,
flowery, forced, formal, fustian, gassy, grandiloquent, grandiose,
guinde, halting, heavy, high-flown, high-swelling, highfalutin,
highfaluting, inflated, inkhorn, labored, leaden, lumbering,
magniloquent, mouthy, overblown, pompous, ponderous, pontifical,
pretentious, self-important, sesquipedalian, solemn, sonorous,
stiff, stilted, stuffy, swollen, tall, tumescent, tumid,
turgescent, turgid, unwieldy, windy