Crossword clues for bombastic
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bombastic \Bom*bas"tic\ (b[o^]m*b[.a]s"t[i^]k or b[u^]m*b[.a]s"t[i^]k), Bombastical \Bom*bas"tic*al\, a. Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated. -- Bom*bas"tic*al*ly, adv.
A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology.
--Burke.
Syn: Turgid; tumid; pompous; grandiloquent.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of a person, their language or writing English) showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous 2 High-sounding but with little meaning. 3 (context archaic English) inflated, overfilled.
WordNet
adj. ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose" [syn: declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid]
Wikipedia
Bombastic, known as XI Go in Japan, is a video game for PlayStation 2.
Bombastic is the second extended play (EP) by American singer-songwriter Bonnie McKee released on June 30, 2015 as digital download by McKee's independent record label. She also stated her intentions for it to be a visual EP.
Usage examples of "bombastic".
The pen-pusher was self-indulgent and bombastic, Gorgidas thought, but he was a diplomat, too.
They are, I believe, doing their best to organise the defence of this city, and if they waste a little time in altering the names of the streets, and publishing manifestoes couched in grand and bombastic phrases, it must be remembered that they have to govern Frenchmen who are fond of this species of nonsense.
A ridiculous or postured artificiality would ruin the impact, and he advises them strongly against bombastic overacting.
It was a bombastic piece filled with murder and bloodshed and proved a popular success.
Hans Castorp, as though somewhere between two intolerable positions, between bombastic humanism and analphabetic barbarism, must be something which one might personally call the human.
Seeing Boone Markland for the bombastic, poorly informed person that he was.
Has even modern melodrama quite lost that immortal type of the ranting, bombastic tyrant and villain?
As the coffers of the Irish Republic began to fill rapidly, the Fenian leaders became more hopeful and bombastic, while enthusiasm among the rank and file continued to be worked up to fever pitch.
The man Eula Price and Lou Mauriani had described to her was fleshy and bombastic, with a voice which wafted multisyllabic phrases with the resonance of a church organ.
The hollowness and vanity of the fellow, his petty meanness and stupidity, his puling sentimentality and credulity, his bombastic air of a cock on a dunghill, his anaesthesia to all whispers and summonings of the spirit, above all, his loathsome clumsiness in amour--all these things must revolt any woman above the lowest.
That initial humiliation back on Fuerte when she'd been refused solo status by the bombastic little Maestro Valdi had resulted in her meeting Carrick, and discovering the covert Heptite Guild.
And then the results of Dtang's last bombastic bowel movement crystallized in my mind, and not a pretty picture it was.
A bombastic Portuguese legislator gave an impassioned plea for the right of little people to have their fun just one night a year, and a huge lobby of storekeepers, who made more than seventy per cent profit selling firecrackers, began to disrupt all customary legislative procedures.
They're boasters and threateners and given to bombastic self-dramatization!
The deputations of the popular clubs come for fourteen months to the bar of the house and recite their common-place or bombastic tirades, and the Convention is forced to applaud them.