What part of speech is bombast?

Bombast can be categorized as a noun.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. bombast is a noun, singular of bombasts.

Inflections

Noun

What does bombast mean?

Definitions

Adjective

bombast - High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.

Verb

bombast - To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.

Noun

bombast - pompous or pretentious talk or writing

Examples of bombast

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1. noun <bombast.
2. noun A Spanish refugee, ANTONIO PEREZ, visited England in 1593 and became acquainted with Francis & ANTHONY Bacon, with whom for a time he seems to have been on terms of intimacy, which did not last very long, for the Spaniard developed so much affectation & bombast that he became unpopular in Court circles.
Sentence  
noun
<bombast.
A Spanish refugee, ANTONIO PEREZ, visited England in 1593 and became acquainted with Francis & ANTHONY Bacon, with whom for a time he seems to have been on terms of intimacy, which did not last very long, for the Spaniard developed so much affectation & bombast that he became unpopular in Court circles.

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