BOMBAST
\bˈɒmbast], \bˈɒmbast], \b_ˈɒ_m_b_a_s_t]\
Definitions of BOMBAST
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.
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High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.
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To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.
By Oddity Software
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Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.
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High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.
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To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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(orig.), Cotton or any soft material used for stuffing garments: inflated or high-sounding language.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
