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bom·bast
(bŏm′băst′)n.
1. Grandiloquent, pompous speech or writing.
2. Grandiose or overpowering expression, as in music or painting.
[Alteration of obsolete bombace, cotton padding, from Old French, from Medieval Latin bombax, bombac-, cotton; see bombazine.]
bom′bast′er n.
bom·bas′tic adj.
bom·bas′ti·cal·ly adv.
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bombast
(ˈbɒmbæst)n
1. pompous and grandiloquent language
2. obsolete material used for padding
[C16: from Old French bombace, from Medieval Latin bombāx cotton; see bombacaceous]
bomˈbastic adj
bomˈbastically adv
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bom•bast
(ˈbɒm bæst)n.
1. pompous oratory or pretentious writing.
2. Obs. cotton or other material used to stuff garments; padding.
adj. 3. Obs. bombastic.
[1560–70; earlier bombace padding < Middle French < Medieval Latin bombācem, acc. of bombāx; silk, cotton]
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Noun | 1. | bombast - pompous or pretentious talk or writing 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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bombast
noun pomposity, ranting, bragging, hot air (informal), bluster, grandiosity, braggadocio, grandiloquence, rodomontade (literary), gasconade (rare), extravagant boasting, magniloquence There were men aboard who could not tolerate his bombast.
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bombast
nounPretentious, pompous speech or writing:
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bombast
[ˈbɒmbæst] N (= pomposity) → ampulosidad f, rimbombancia f; (= words) → palabras fpl altisonantes, rimbombancia f; (= boasts) → bravatas fplCollins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
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