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单词 bombast
释义
bombasticbom‧bas‧tic /bɒmˈbæstɪk $ bɑːm-/ adjective Word Origin
WORD ORIGINbombastic
Origin:
1700-1800 bombast ‘bombastic language’ (16-21 centuries), from Old French bombace ‘soft material for filling something’, from Medieval Latin bombax ‘cotton’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • His bombastic style made him unpopular with his colleagues.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Derek is bombastic, opinionated and very happy to correct his wife in public.
  • Leavitt's bombastic, trivial films were completely phoney.
  • Of course, this kind of thing can become bombastic and rhetorical.
  • The bombastic, vainglorious Nivelle had virtually announced to the world his grandiose expectations, making the dreadful defeat doubly damaging.
  • There is nothing electric here, nothing bombastic nor blaring, as this is his first acoustic recording.
bombastic language contains long words that sound important but have no real meaning:  He is best known for three rather bombastic poems.bombast /ˈbɒmbæst $ ˈbɑːm-/ noun [uncountable]
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