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The definition of bombastic is important-sounding language that is meaningless.

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An example of bombastic is someone ranting about how much better they are at something than others.

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See bombastic in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

using or characterized by high-sounding but unimportant or meaningless language; pompous; grandiloquent

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