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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bombastic \Bom*bas"tic\ (b[o^]m*b[.a]s"t[i^]k or
b[u^]m*b[.a]s"t[i^]k), Bombastical \Bom*bas"tic*al\, a.
Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated. --
{Bom*bas"tic*al*ly}, adv
A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology. --Burke.
Syn: Turgid; tumid; pompous; grandiloquent.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
bombastic
adj : ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk";
"tumid political prose" [syn: {declamatory}, {large}, {orotund},
{tumid}, {turgid}]
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