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Webster 1828 Edition

Bombastic

BOMBAS'TIC

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Adj.

Swelled; high sounding; bombast.

Definition 2025

bombastic

bombastic

English

Alternative forms

bombastick (obsolete)

Adjective

bombastic ‎(comparative more bombastic, superlative most bombastic)

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

Synonyms

(pompous or overly wordy): blustering, grandiloquent, pompous, verbose, florid
(inflated, overfilled): inflated, turgid

Antonyms

(pompous or overly wordy): concise, succinct

Related terms

Descendants

French: bombastique
Spanish: bombástico

Translations

pompous or overly wordy

Bulgarian: надут (bg) ‎(nadut), превзет (bg) ‎(prevzet)
French: ampoulé (fr), enflé (fr), boursouflé (fr), pompeux (fr)
German: bombastisch (de)
Hungarian: bombasztikus (hu), dagályos (hu), cikornyás (hu)
Irish: mórfhoclach
Italian: pomposo, magniloquente (it) m, ampolloso (it)
Maori: wahahuka

Norwegian: bombastisk, svulstig
Nynorsk: bombastisk, svulstig
Polish: pompatyczny (pl)
Portuguese: bombástico
Russian: напы́щенный (ru) ‎(napýščennyj), помпе́зный (ru) ‎(pompéznyj), высокопа́рный (ru) ‎(vysokopárnyj)
Slovak: bombastický
Spanish: bombástico, rimbombante (es)

high-sounding but with little meaning

Bulgarian: голословен (bg) ‎(golosloven)
French: verbeux (fr), abscons (fr)
German: bombastisch (de)
Hungarian: fellengzős (hu)
Irish: mórfhoclach

Norwegian: høyttravende (no), høystemt
Nynorsk: høgttravande, høgttråvande, høgstemt
Polish: górnolotny (pl)
Russian: напы́щенный (ru) ‎(napýščennyj), помпе́зный (ru) ‎(pompéznyj)

inflated, overfilled

German: bombastisch (de)
Norwegian: bombastisk, svulstig
Nynorsk: bombastisk, svulstig

Polish: napuszony
Spanish: bombástico