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n. Grandiloquent, pompous speech or writing.

n. Originally, cotton, or cotton wool.

n. Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding.

n. High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.

v. To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.

adj. High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.

n. Originally, cotton, or cotton wool.

n. Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding.

n. Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.

adj. High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.

v. To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.

n. Cotton; the cotton-plant.

n. Cotton or other stuff of soft, loose texture, used to stuff garments; padding.

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n. Figuratively, high-sounding words; inflated or extravagant language; fustian; speech too big and high-sounding for the occasion.

n. Synonyms Bombast, Fustian, Bathos, Turgidness, Tumidness, Rant. “Bombast was originally applied to a stuff of soft, loose texture, used to swell the garment. Fustian was also a kind of cloth of stiff, expansive character. These terms are applied to a high, swelling style of writing, full of extravagant sentiments and expressions. Bathos is a word which has the same application, meaning generally the mock-heroic—that ‘depth’ into which one falls who overleaps the sublime: the step which one makes in passing from the sublime to the ridiculous.” (De Mille, Elements of Rhetoric, p. 225.) Bombast is rather stronger than fustian. Turgidness and tumidness are words drawn from the swelling of the body, and express mere inflation of style without reference to sentiment. Rant is extravagant or violent language, proceeding from enthusiasm or fanaticism, generally in support of extreme opinions or against those holding opinions of a milder or different sort.

High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning.

To pad out; stuff, as a doublet with cotton; hence, to inflate; swell out with high-sounding or bombastic language.

To beat; baste.

n. pompous or pretentious talk or writing

"Many of us wish he'd just go away, but ignorant bombast is a money maker in our society."

grandiosity    rhetoric    grandiloquence    ornateness    magniloquence   

stuffing    padding    fustian    high-sounding    inflated    magniloquent    bombastic    pad    inflate    boasting   

balderdash    bluster    pomposity    untruth    bathos    pleonasm    sentimentalism    sophistry    declamation    verbosity