Bombastic

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Pompous or overly wordy.
  • adj. High-sounding but with little meaning.
  • adj. Inflated, overfilled.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated; extravagant.
  • Synonyms Swelling, tumid, stilted, pompous, lofty, grandiloquent, high-flown.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. ostentatiously lofty in style
  • Equivalent
    rhetorical   
    Antonym
    modest   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    high-sounding    inflated    boastful    sounding    stilted    tumid    turgid    grandiloquent    grandiloquous    turgent   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts