Usually means: Pompous, inflated, high-sounding language use.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. bombastic: Merriam-Webster
  2. bombastic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bombastic: Collins English Dictionary
  4. bombastic: Vocabulary.com
  5. Bombastic, bombastic: Wordnik
  6. bombastic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. bombastic: Wiktionary
  8. bombastic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. bombastic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. bombastic: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Bombastic, bombastic: Dictionary.com
  12. Bombastic (Bonnie McKee EP), Bombastic (Bonnie McKee song), Bombastic (EP), Bombastic (video game): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. bombastic: FreeDictionary.org
  14. bombastic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. bombastic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. Bombastic: World Wide Words
  17. Bombastic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. bombastic: Rhymezone
  19. Bombastic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bombastic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Bombastic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  22. bombastic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bombastic: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bombastic: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bombastic: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bombastic: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  (of a person, their language or writing) showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous
▸ adjective:  High-sounding but with little meaning.
▸ adjective:  (archaic) Inflated, overfilled.

Similar:
declamatory, large, turgid, rhetorical, tumid, orotund, bombastick, bombastiloquent, grandiloquent, bombast, more...

Opposite:
understated, humble, modest, unassuming

Types:
grandiose, overblown, pretentious, self-important, vain, more...

Phrases:
Chad Smith's Bombastic Meatbats, using bombastic language, be bombastic, to use bombastic language, bombastic boldness, more...

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    crimson,     electric blue,     neon green,     hot pink,     fiery red, more...



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Similar:
declamatory, large, turgid, rhetorical, tumid, orotund, bombastick, bombastiloquent, grandiloquent, bombast, more...

Opposite:
understated, humble, modest, unassuming

Types:
grandiose, overblown, pretentious, self-important, vain, more...

Phrases:
Chad Smith's Bombastic Meatbats, using bombastic language, be bombastic, to use bombastic language, bombastic boldness, bombastic speech, bombastic language, bombastic loud, bombastic speaker, more...

Colors:
    crimson,     electric blue,     neon green,     hot pink,     fiery red, more...



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