Definition for Bombast:

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

Synonyms for Bombast:

• n.

  •
  • plain,
  • style.
  •blah (noun)
  • blah.
  •bluster (noun)
  • swaggerings,
  • rampancies,
  • boisterousnesses,
  • rabidities,
  • braggings.
  •boast (noun)
  • self-approbation,
  • vanity,
  • braggadocio,
  • self-praise,
  • pretension.
  •boasting (noun)
  • Altiloquence,
  • fustian,
  • exaggeration,
  • rodomontade,
  • cotton,
  • stuff,
  • Bombastry,
  • rave,
  • padded,
  • Tympany,
  • tumidity,
  • rage,
  • pad,
  • gasconade,
  • stuffed.
  •bombast (noun)
  • claptrap.
  •braggadocio (noun)
  • crowing bluster,
  • crowing blusters,
  • boastfulnesses.
  •bravado (noun)
  • fancy talks,
  • ragings,
  • stormings,
  • selfglorifications,
  • self glorifications,
  • blowings,
  • bullyings,
  • self glorification,
  • self-glorifications.
  •euphuism (noun)
  • gongorisms,
  • purisms,
  • floridnesses.
  •flatulence (noun)
  • flatulence,
  • windiness,
  • empty talk,
  • idle words.
  •hooey (noun)
  • Jas,
  • JA,
  • bunkum.
  •jargon (noun)
  • street talks,
  • shoptalks,
  • in sipidity,
  • hackneyed terms,
  • in-sipidities,
  • stale languages,
  • doublespeaks,
  • slanguages,
  • in-sipidity,
  • in sipidities,
  • overused terms,
  • commonplace terms,
  • newspeaks,
  • trite languages.
  •nonsense (noun)
  • non-sense,
  • pre tenses,
  • non-senses,
  • pre tense,
  • pre-tense,
  • non sense,
  • non senses.
  •ornate speech or writing (noun)
  • Floweriness,
  • showiness,
  • flamboyance,
  • embellishment,
  • loftiness,
  • volubility,
  • elaborateness,
  • splashiness,
  • opulence,
  • inflatedness,
  • richness,
  • double talk,
  • ponderousness,
  • fanciness.
  •prelection (noun)
  • pre-lection,
  • pre lections,
  • pre lection,
  • pre-lections.
  •rhetoric (noun)
  • dis-course,
  • dis-courses,
  • hyper-boles,
  • hyper-bole,
  • hyper bole,
  • dis course,
  • dis courses,
  • flowery languages,
  • hyper boles.
  •speech (noun)
  • panegyric,
  • panegyrics,
  • Valedictories,
  • chalk talk,
  • valedictory,
  • keynotes.
  •talk (noun)
  • in-sinuation,
  • in-sinuations,
  • idle talks.
  •wordiness (noun)
  • lengthiness,
  • excessiveness,
  • endlessness,
  • featherbedding,
  • superfluity,
  • talkativeness,
  • Chattiness,
  • Verbalism,
  • loquaciousness,
  • verbosity.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • turgidity,
  • Orotundity,
  • balderdash.
  •Other relevant words:
  • expound,
  • big,
  • baloney,
  • blustering,
  • arrogant,
  • farce,
  • thrive,
  • crake,
  • blether,
  • embroider,
  • Macrology,
  • billow,
  • bounce,
  • grandiloquent,
  • puff,
  • anticlimax,
  • detonate,
  • brag,
  • excess,
  • overemphasis,
  • extortionate,
  • grandiose,
  • bloated,
  • buffoonery,
  • vagueness,
  • Jactancy,
  • prosper,
  • prattle,
  • trumpery,
  • romanticization,
  • frippery,
  • high-flown,
  • wind,
  • fiddle-faddle,
  • gabble,
  • fill,
  • Blague,
  • rigamarole,
  • horseshit,
  • fun,
  • teratology,
  • blather,
  • rigmarole,
  • discourse,
  • platitude,
  • fish story,
  • bullshit,
  • bombastic,
  • heroic,
  • prate,
  • truism,
  • hyperbolic,
  • spout,
  • cockalorum,
  • eyewash,
  • trash,
  • talk big,
  • bluff,
  • comedy,
  • ostentatious,
  • harangue,
  • embroidery,
  • hyperbole,
  • extravagance,
  • crap,
  • tripe,
  • boloney,
  • pyrotechnics,
  • garbage,
  • highfalutin,
  • ridicule,
  • act,
  • swagger,
  • blow,
  • vapour,
  • eccentricity,
  • declamatory,
  • enlarge,
  • humbug,
  • embellish,
  • orate,
  • aureate,
  • pontificate,
  • gobbledygook,
  • gibberish,
  • exaltation,
  • pretensions,
  • hogwash,
  • tirade,
  • highfaluting,
  • drool,
  • gas,
  • distend,
  • mere words,
  • aggrandize,
  • oratory,
  • flummery,
  • mumbo jumbo,
  • exaggerate,
  • blind,
  • Bibble-babble,
  • twaddle,
  • florid,
  • flowery,
  • unmeaning,
  • laughingstock,
  • philippic,
  • bathos,
  • pile it on,
  • jabberwocky,
  • jactation,
  • Lexiphanicism,
  • prolixity,
  • folderol,
  • Prelection,
  • rot,
  • elaboration,
  • magnify,
  • waffling,
  • skimble-skamble,
  • flatulent,
  • Puffery,
  • vaunt,
  • histrionics,
  • pretentiousness,
  • blabber,
  • pretense,
  • burlesque,
  • overstatement,
  • aggrandise,
  • falderal,
  • theatrics,
  • gobbledegook,
  • dramatize,
  • boasting,
  • bilge,
  • Twattle,
  • hocus-pocus,
  • palaver,
  • stretch,
  • Braggardism,
  • Fiddledeedee,
  • gibber,
  • unintelligibility,
  • ranting,
  • vainglory,
  • baragouin,
  • Babblement,
  • waffle,
  • enlargement,
  • inflation,
  • heroics,
  • monstrosity,
  • Vaunting,
  • Venditation,
  • absurdity,
  • raving,
  • lecture,
  • dilate,
  • apple sauce,
  • braggartism,
  • vaporing,
  • moonshine,
  • enhancement,
  • horse feathers,
  • Unconformity,
  • heave,
  • babble,
  • guff,
  • gab,
  • amphigory,
  • jactitation,
  • vapor,
  • hot air,
  • cackle,
  • bunk,
  • poppycock,
  • piffle,
  • expand,
  • conceit,
  • Galimatias,
  • bosh,
  • long-windedness,
  • Vapouring,
  • Stultiloquence,
  • malarkey,
  • bragging,
  • wish-wash,
  • buncombe,
  • drivel,
  • rotundity,
  • Gibble-gabble,
  • inflate,
  • side,
  • amplify,
  • flourish,
  • mouth,
  • tumor,
  • gammon,
  • cobblers,
  • dramatise,
  • magnification,
  • Double Dutch,
  • tall talk,
  • lay it on,
  • address,
  • sesquipedality,
  • show,
  • stuff and nonsense,
  • fudge,
  • inflated,
  • inanity,
  • sermon,
  • verbiage,
  • bushwa,
  • haughty,
  • deception,
  • fleshy,
  • big talk,
  • monstrous,
  • jabber,
  • rubbish,
  • bull.

Antonyms for Bombast:

• n.

  • boasting
    plain speaking.

Bombast Sentence Examples:

• It is a troublesome and delicate task for the teacher who is guiding them to manage to give the dialogue a tone better than mere commonplace and different from mere bombast.

• We now pass on to motives where the dialogue aims at effects manifestly unnatural and where verisimilitude is sacrificed to the joke, as we have seen it is in the employment of " bombast," " true burlesque," etc.