Bombastic Definition

bämbastik
adjective
Using or characterized by high-sounding but unimportant or meaningless language; pompous; grandiloquent.
Webster's New World

(archaic) Inflated, overfilled.

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Origin of Bombastic

  • Either from bombast (“padding, stuffing”), or from middle name of Paracelsus (Theophrastus Bombastus), who often used extremely arrogant speaking style.

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Bombastic Sentence Examples

  • This is a singular prose poem, in language sometimes rather bombastic but often beautiful.

  • His most important poem is Wladystaus IV., King of Poland, in which he sings in a very bombastic strain the various expeditions of the Polish monarch.

  • He's not bombastic, just clear-headed and positive about the priorities which matter to him.

  • This one, written for some reason in conjunction with a former colleague, is too bombastic just a tad.

  • Ethelweard gave himself the bombastic title "Patricius Consul Quaestor Ethelwerdus," and unfortunately this title is only too characteristic of the man.

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