Definition of bombasts Bombasts
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What does bombasts mean?
Part of speech
🔤- bombasts, noun, plural of bombast.
WordNet
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| bombast - pompous or pretentious talk or writing | ||
| fustian, rant, claptrap, blah | ||
| grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, rhetoric high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation; "the grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of language" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- bombast (Noun)
Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. - bombast (Noun)
Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding. - bombast (Noun)
High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian. - bombast (Verb)
To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate. - bombast (Adjective)
High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- bombast (n.)
Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. - bombast (n.)
Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding. - bombast (n.)
Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian. - bombast (a.)
High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic. - bombast (v. t.)
To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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bombast
bom′-, bum′bast, n. inflated or high-sounding language: originally cotton or any soft material used for stuffing garments.—adj. Bombas′tic, high-sounding: inflated. [Low L. bombax, cotton—Gr. bombyx, silk.]
Part of speech
🔤- bombast, noun, singular of bombasts.
