3. Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian. Yet noisy bombast carefully avoid. Dryden.
BOMBAST
Bom"bast, a.
Defn: High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent;
bombastic.
[He] evades them with a bombast circumstance,
Horribly stuffed with epithets of war. Shak.
Nor a tall metaphor in bombast way. Cowley.
BOMBAST
Bom*bast", v. t.
Defn: To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate. [Obs.]
Not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed. Drayton.
BOMBASTIC; BOMBASTICAL
Bom*bas"tic, Bom*bas"tic*al, a.
Defn: Characterized by bombast; highsounding; inflated.
— Bom*bas"tic*al*ly, adv.
A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology. Burke.
Syn.
— Turgid; tumid; pompous; grandiloquent.
BOMBASTRY
Bom"bast*ry, n.
Defn: Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language;
fustian.
Bombastry and buffoonery, by nature lofty and light, soar highest of
all. Swift.