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BOMBAST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bombast mean? 

BOMBAST (noun)
  The noun BOMBAST has 1 sense:

1. pompous or pretentious talk or writingplay

  Familiarity information: BOMBAST used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BOMBAST (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Pompous or pretentious talk or writing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

blah; bombast; claptrap; fustian; rant

Hypernyms ("bombast" is a kind of...):

grandiloquence; grandiosity; magniloquence; ornateness; rhetoric (high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation)

Derivation:

bombastic (ostentatiously lofty in style)


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