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bombastic, a.|bɒmˈbæstɪk|
[f. bombast n. + -ic.]
1. Of the nature of bombast; inflated, turgid.
1704Key to Rehearsal Pref. 4 Outdoing them in their Bumbastick Bills. 1756Nugent Montesquieu's Spir. Laws xxviii. i, Frivolous in the substance, and bombastic in the style. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 600. 1861 Tulloch Eng. Purit. ii. 326 His bombastic words signify nothing.
2. Given to the use of bombastic language.
1727De Foe Hist. Appar. iv. (1840) 30 A certain bombastic Author. 1864Kingsley Rom. & Teut. iii. 59 Claudian, the poet, a bombastic panegyrist of Roman scoundrels. |