bombastic
bombastic
adjectiveDefinition of BOMBASTIC
marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phrases <a bombastic speech intended to impress the voters in her congressional district>
Related Words bloated, elevated, florid, flowery, grandiose, highfalutin (also hifalutin), high-flown, high-sounding, inflated, lofty, ornate, pompous, pontifical, pretentious, stilted, tumid, turgid; overdone, verbose, wordy
Near Antonyms eloquent, well-spoken; bald, direct, matter-of-fact, plain, plainspoken, simple, stark, straightforward, unadorned, unaffected, unpretentious
Antonyms unrhetorical
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