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Pronunciation:
[ bˈɒmbast], [ bˈɒmbast], [ b_ˈɒ_m_b_a_s_t]
Bombast refers to language or speech that is overly grandiose, pompous or pretentious. It is often used to describe speeches or writings that are intended to impress or intimidate rather than communicate effectively. Synonyms for bombast include grandiloquence, pomposity, verbosity, orotundity, rhetoric, magniloquence, inflated language and overblown speech. These words suggest elaborate and exaggerated language that is designed to make an impression rather than convey a clear message. If you want to avoid bombast, strive for clear, concise and straightforward language that captures your ideas and communicates your message in a simple and effective manner.
Related words: nonsense, humbug, hyperbole, verbosity
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Synonyms for Bombast:
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n.
• bluster • boast • braggadocio • bravado- blowings ,
- bullyings ,
- fancy talks ,
- ragings ,
- self glorification ,
- self glorifications ,
- self-glorifications ,
- selfglorifications ,
- stormings .
- commonplace terms ,
- doublespeaks ,
- hackneyed terms ,
- in sipidities ,
- in sipidity ,
- in-sipidities ,
- in-sipidity ,
- newspeaks ,
- overused terms ,
- shoptalks ,
- slanguages ,
- stale languages ,
- street talks ,
- trite languages .
- Floweriness ,
- double talk ,
- elaborateness ,
- embellishment ,
- fanciness ,
- flamboyance ,
- inflatedness ,
- loftiness ,
- opulence ,
- ponderousness ,
- richness ,
- showiness ,
- splashiness ,
- volubility .
Other synonyms:
- Orotundity ,
- balderdash ,
- jargon ,
- nonsense ,
- turgidity .
- magniloquence ,
- style ,
- words .
- speech .
- talk .
Other relevant words:
- abject ,
- abominable ,
- absurdness ,
- accelerator ,
- accelerator pedal ,
- accost ,
- act as ,
- actor's line ,
- adopt ,
- adorn ,
- adult ,
- adulterate ,
- afflictive ,
- affluence ,
- agonising ,
- air current ,
- amplification ,
- angry ,
- annihilating ,
- annihilative ,
- apotheosis ,
- apparent ,
- apparently ,
- appearance ,
- applesauce ,
- argot ,
- articulateness ,
- atrocious ,
- awful ,
- babble out ,
- babbling ,
- back talk ,
- backtalk ,
- bad ,
- bagatelle ,
- ball up ,
- balloon ,
- banality ,
- banana tree ,
- baneful ,
- bare ,
- bawl out ,
- be adrift ,
- bear witness ,
- beat ,
- beautify ,
- becloud ,
- befog ,
- behave ,
- berate ,
- berth ,
- betrayer ,
- bighearted ,
- bilge water ,
- bilgewater ,
- binge ,
- bit ,
- blab ,
- blab out ,
- black eye ,
- blackguard ,
- blandishment ,
- blarney ,
- blast ,
- blatherskite ,
- bleak ,
- blither ,
- block ,
- blow out ,
- blow up ,
- blowup ,
- blue ,
- bluff out ,
- blusterous ,
- blustery ,
- boastful ,
- boastfully ,
- bobble ,
- bold ,
- bollix ,
- bollix up ,
- bollocks ,
- bollocks up ,
- bolster ,
- bombast ,
- boom ,
- bootleg ,
- boss ,
- botch ,
- botch up ,
- bounciness ,
- bouncing ,
- bound ,
- bounteous ,
- bountiful ,
- braggart ,
- braggy ,
- brandish ,
- break away ,
- breakdown ,
- breaking wind ,
- breeziness ,
- broadside ,
- broider ,
- bromide ,
- browbeat ,
- bruiser ,
- bubble ,
- buckle ,
- built in bed ,
- bull through ,
- bull's eye ,
- bully ,
- bumble ,
- bump ,
- bungle ,
- bunk bed ,
- burble ,
- burn out ,
- busy ,
- busybodied ,
- butt ,
- ca-ca ,
- cacography ,
- cajole ,
- cajolery ,
- call ,
- call down ,
- call on the carpet ,
- cant ,
- carving ,
- causerie ,
- ceremonious ,
- chalk ,
- champaign ,
- chatter ,
- cheeky ,
- chesty ,
- chew out ,
- chew up ,
- chicken feed ,
- chide ,
- chin music ,
- chin wag ,
- chin wagging ,
- chin-wag ,
- chin-wagging ,
- chit chat ,
- chit-chat ,
- chitchat ,
- choice of words ,
- choke up ,
- chuff ,
- circumvent ,
- clack ,
- cliche ,
- clipping ,
- clobber ,
- clowning ,
- coax ,
- cock ,
- cock-a-hoop ,
- codswallop ,
- coke ,
- cold-blooded ,
- coldness ,
- colicky ,
- collyrium ,
- come up to ,
- comfort ,
- comforter ,
- common cold ,
- commonplace ,
- complacent ,
- complain ,
- computer address ,
- confidential information ,
- conform to ,
- congratulate ,
- conjuration ,
- conjuring trick ,
- contempt ,
- continuation ,
- converse ,
- cook ,
- cop ,
- copper ,
- corn liquor ,
- cornucopia ,
- corrupt ,
- cotton fiber ,
- cotton plant ,
- cotton wool ,
- cover ,
- crank ,
- craze ,
- crow ,
- crowing ,
- crushing ,
- cult ,
- current of air ,
- curve ,
- cushioned ,
- cushiony ,
- cut ,
- cutting off ,
- dapple ,
- dash ,
- deal ,
- debase ,
- deceit ,
- deck ,
- decompose ,
- decomposition ,
- decorate ,
- deed ,
- defecate ,
- defile ,
- deification ,
- deign ,
- deleterious ,
- delivery ,
- demo ,
- demonstrate ,
- demoralised ,
- deoxyephedrine ,
- depict ,
- deplorable ,
- depressed ,
- derision ,
- descend ,
- designate ,
- desperate ,
- destination ,
- diction ,
- dictionary ,
- diggings ,
- digs ,
- dilute ,
- dim ,
- direct ,
- dirt ,
- disconcerting ,
- discouraged ,
- discourtesy ,
- discuss ,
- discussion ,
- disdainful ,
- disesteem ,
- disgraceful ,
- disheartened ,
- display ,
- dissemble ,
- dissembling ,
- dissertate ,
- dissimulation ,
- distressful ,
- disturbing ,
- dodge ,
- dogshit ,
- dolourous ,
- domiciliation ,
- doodle ,
- down ,
- down in the mouth ,
- downcast ,
- downhearted ,
- drag ,
- draw ,
- dreadful ,
- dress down ,
- dresser ,
- dressing table ,
- dribble ,
- drift ,
- drollery ,
- duck ,
- dupery ,
- dustup ,
- dusty ,
- ecstasy ,
- edged ,
- egocentrism ,
- egoist ,
- egoistic ,
- egoistical ,
- elaborate ,
- elan ,
- elevated ,
- elongate ,
- elude ,
- embarrassment ,
- eminent ,
- emptiness ,
- empty words ,
- enactment ,
- enceinte ,
- encomiastic ,
- encomium ,
- english ,
- englut ,
- engorge ,
- envision ,
- epic ,
- escape ,
- establish ,
- eulogistic ,
- eulogy ,
- evade ,
- evaporation ,
- evidence ,
- evident ,
- evidently ,
- evince ,
- exalted ,
- excruciating ,
- execrable ,
- exhibit ,
- exorbitant ,
- expansion ,
- expansive ,
- expatiate ,
- expectant ,
- explode ,
- exposit ,
- express ,
- expressive style ,
- extend ,
- extension ,
- extra ,
- eye-lotion ,
- face ,
- fad ,
- fake ,
- falderol ,
- falsify ,
- fancify ,
- fancywork ,
- fanfare ,
- fantasy ,
- farce comedy ,
- fart ,
- farting ,
- fashion ,
- fatuity ,
- fatuousness ,
- favorable position ,
- feature ,
- feed bunk ,
- feigning ,
- fellate ,
- fertility ,
- field ,
- figure ,
- fill out ,
- fill up ,
- filling ,
- film editing ,
- fit ,
- flagitious ,
- flair ,
- flamboyant ,
- flatulency ,
- flatus ,
- flesh out ,
- float ,
- flub ,
- fluency ,
- fluff ,
- fly high ,
- fly the coop ,
- fog ,
- folderal ,
- fondness ,
- food waste ,
- footslog ,
- forbidding ,
- forcemeat ,
- foul up ,
- four flush ,
- fraud ,
- fraudulence ,
- freak ,
- freehanded ,
- frightful ,
- frigid ,
- frigidity ,
- frill ,
- frivolity ,
- fuck up ,
- fulfil ,
- fulfill ,
- full-grown ,
- fullness ,
- fully grown ,
- fumble ,
- funniness ,
- furious ,
- furor ,
- furore ,
- fury ,
- fuzz ,
- gabfest ,
- gag ,
- gallant ,
- garrulity ,
- garrulousness ,
- gas pedal ,
- gaseous state ,
- gasolene ,
- gasoline ,
- gasp ,
- gassy ,
- giddiness ,
- gilded ,
- gilt ,
- gimcrack ,
- gimcrackery ,
- giving ,
- glass ,
- globosity ,
- globularness ,
- gloomy ,
- glut ,
- go down on ,
- go for ,
- goat ,
- gold ,
- golden ,
- gorge ,
- gormandise ,
- gormandize ,
- gossip ,
- gourmandize ,
- grace ,
- grand ,
- grandness ,
- gravid ,
- great ,
- grievous ,
- grim ,
- groovy ,
- grotesque ,
- grown ,
- grownup ,
- guggle ,
- guise ,
- gun ,
- gurgle ,
- gush ,
- gust ,
- guy ,
- ham ,
- handle ,
- handsome ,
- hapless ,
- harlequinade ,
- hassock ,
- have words ,
- haze over ,
- head for the hills ,
- heartrending ,
- heave up ,
- heaviness ,
- heaving ,
- heavy ,
- hedge ,
- heft ,
- heft up ,
- heftiness ,
- heroic meter ,
- heroic verse ,
- heroical ,
- hesitate ,
- hifalutin ,
- high life ,
- high quality ,
- high-minded ,
- high-sounding ,
- highlife ,
- highness ,
- hightail it ,
- hint ,
- hoax ,
- hoist ,
- hoity-toity ,
- hokum ,
- hold forth ,
- homely ,
- horrible ,
- horror-stricken ,
- horror-struck ,
- hot ,
- huff ,
- human action ,
- human activity ,
- hyperbolise ,
- hyperbolize ,
- ice ,
- idealistic ,
- illusion ,
- image ,
- impressiveness ,
- incline ,
- incoherence ,
- incoherency ,
- indicate ,
- informer ,
- ingurgitate ,
- inhuman ,
- injurious ,
- inking pad ,
- inkpad ,
- inordinateness ,
- insensate ,
- interfering ,
- intricacy ,
- inveigle ,
- involution ,
- irritating ,
- jabbering ,
- jambon ,
- jargoon ,
- jaw ,
- jazz ,
- jest at ,
- jiggery-pokery ,
- jounce ,
- junk ,
- keen ,
- kick ,
- knifelike ,
- knit ,
- knit stitch ,
- kvetch ,
- la-di-da ,
- lachrymose ,
- lallation ,
- lam ,
- lambast ,
- lambaste ,
- lamentable ,
- lampoon ,
- lancinate ,
- lancinating ,
- language ,
- lard ,
- large ,
- largeness ,
- larger-than-life ,
- laugh at ,
- launch area ,
- launch pad ,
- launching pad ,
- launchpad ,
- lavishness ,
- lead ,
- leap ,
- leaping ,
- lecturing ,
- legerdemain ,
- let the cat out of the bag ,
- liberal ,
- lift ,
- line-shooting ,
- lip ,
- listless ,
- load ,
- lodgings ,
- loquacity ,
- lordly ,
- louse up ,
- low ,
- low temperature ,
- low-down ,
- low-spirited ,
- lower oneself ,
- lucubrate ,
- lug ,
- lurid ,
- luxuriousness ,
- luxury ,
- lyric ,
- madness ,
- magic ,
- magic trick ,
- magnanimous ,
- magnificence ,
- magniloquent ,
- majestic ,
- majesty ,
- make ,
- make full ,
- make fun ,
- make-believe ,
- manifest ,
- manifestly ,
- manipulate ,
- manner ,
- manner of speaking ,
- massiveness ,
- material ,
- maunder ,
- mawkishness ,
- meander ,
- meaninglessness ,
- measly ,
- meddlesome ,
- meddling ,
- meet ,
- mellowness ,
- menacing ,
- mental lexicon ,
- merriment ,
- mess up ,
- meth ,
- methamphetamine ,
- methamphetamine hydrochloride ,
- methedrine ,
- minacious ,
- minatory ,
- mindlessness ,
- misfortunate ,
- mishandle ,
- misrepresent ,
- misrepresentation ,
- mist ,
- mockery ,
- mode ,
- molder ,
- monster ,
- moon ,
- moonlight ,
- moth-eaten ,
- mottle ,
- moulder ,
- mouth off ,
- mouthpiece ,
- move ,
- muck up ,
- muff ,
- mummery ,
- name and address ,
- narcism ,
- natural gas ,
- neoplasm ,
- nervy ,
- newspaper clipping ,
- nimiety ,
- noble-minded ,
- nonsense verse ,
- nonsensical ,
- nonsensicality ,
- nose ,
- nose candy ,
- nothingness ,
- number ,
- objectionable ,
- obscure ,
- obviously ,
- occupy ,
- ominous ,
- openhanded ,
- oral cavity ,
- oral communication ,
- oral fissure ,
- ornament ,
- ornamentation ,
- ornate ,
- orotund ,
- ostentation ,
- ostentatiousness ,
- ottoman ,
- outrageous ,
- overabundance ,
- overbearing ,
- overblown ,
- overcast ,
- overdo ,
- overdraw ,
- overeat ,
- overgorge ,
- overindulge ,
- overindulgence ,
- overplus ,
- overstate ,
- overweight ,
- pad of paper ,
- paean ,
- palpable ,
- paltry ,
- pan ,
- panache ,
- panegyrical ,
- pant ,
- papacy ,
- papal bull ,
- parody ,
- parry ,
- partiality ,
- pasquinade ,
- passion ,
- patent ,
- patently ,
- pathetic ,
- patois ,
- patronise ,
- patronize ,
- peach ,
- pean ,
- perturbing ,
- petrol ,
- phantasy ,
- phraseology ,
- phrasing ,
- picture ,
- piercing ,
- pig ,
- pig out ,
- piteous ,
- pitiable ,
- pitiful ,
- plain stitch ,
- plainly ,
- play ,
- playact ,
- playfulness ,
- plethora ,
- plod ,
- plow ,
- plume ,
- point ,
- pointlessness ,
- poke fun ,
- pompousness ,
- ponderosity ,
- pontifical ,
- poop ,
- poor ,
- portentous ,
- position ,
- pouf ,
- pouffe ,
- powderpuff ,
- prance ,
- prank ,
- preaching ,
- present ,
- press clipping ,
- press cutting ,
- pretence ,
- pretend ,
- pretending ,
- pretentious ,
- pretext ,
- prettify ,
- prideful ,
- pridefulness ,
- prodigality ,
- profligacy ,
- profuseness ,
- profusion ,
- project ,
- prolificacy ,
- prolixness ,
- prolongation ,
- prominent ,
- protraction ,
- proud ,
- prove ,
- public lecture ,
- puff of air ,
- puff out ,
- puff up ,
- puffed ,
- puffiness ,
- pull ,
- put off ,
- put-on ,
- putrefaction ,
- pyrotechny ,
- quarrel ,
- quetch ,
- quilt ,
- rabbit on ,
- rag ,
- raise ,
- ramp ,
- rankness ,
- rapture ,
- raptus ,
- rarefied ,
- rarified ,
- rat ,
- ravingly ,
- raw ,
- reach ,
- reaching ,
- read ,
- rebound ,
- rebuke ,
- recoil ,
- record ,
- redundant ,
- reference ,
- refinement ,
- refuse ,
- register ,
- remonstrate ,
- render ,
- replete ,
- represent ,
- representation ,
- reprimand ,
- resile ,
- retch ,
- reverberate ,
- reversal ,
- reverse ,
- rhodomontade ,
- rib ,
- ricochet ,
- ridiculousness ,
- ripple ,
- rising prices ,
- roast ,
- roleplay ,
- roll ,
- romanticisation ,
- rotting ,
- roundness ,
- routine ,
- row ,
- rubicund ,
- ruddy ,
- ruffle ,
- run ,
- run away ,
- run-in ,
- sad ,
- salivate ,
- saltation ,
- samson ,
- sanguine ,
- sarcoid ,
- sashay ,
- sass ,
- sassing ,
- sate ,
- satiate ,
- satisfy ,
- savoir-faire ,
- scandalous ,
- scarf out ,
- scarper ,
- scat ,
- scent ,
- scold ,
- scrabble ,
- scrap ,
- scraps ,
- scratch ,
- scrawl ,
- screen ,
- screw up ,
- scum ,
- scummy ,
- scurvy ,
- see ,
- self ,
- self-aggrandisement ,
- self-aggrandising ,
- self-aggrandizement ,
- self-aggrandizing ,
- self-assertive ,
- self-centered ,
- self-centeredness ,
- self-centred ,
- self-concern ,
- self-important ,
- self-interest ,
- self-love ,
- send-up ,
- sendup ,
- sentimentalisation ,
- sentimentalization ,
- set forth ,
- set off ,
- setback ,
- shabu ,
- shameful ,
- sheer ,
- shew ,
- shit ,
- shite ,
- shock ,
- shoot a line ,
- shove ,
- shove along ,
- shove off ,
- show up ,
- side of meat ,
- sidestep ,
- simulation ,
- sing ,
- sinister ,
- skirt ,
- skulduggery ,
- skullduggery ,
- slabber ,
- slang ,
- slaver ,
- slickness ,
- slip ,
- slobber ,
- slog ,
- slope ,
- small talk ,
- smatter ,
- smoothness ,
- smug ,
- snake oil ,
- sneering ,
- snide ,
- sniffy ,
- snow ,
- soaring ,
- sore ,
- sorry ,
- sound off ,
- spare ,
- speak ,
- speech communication ,
- sphericalness ,
- sphericity ,
- spill ,
- spill the beans ,
- spirt ,
- spoil ,
- spoken communication ,
- spoken language ,
- spoof ,
- sport ,
- spread out ,
- spring ,
- spurt ,
- squander ,
- squealer ,
- squeeze ,
- stabbing ,
- stale ,
- stamp pad ,
- stateliness ,
- steep ,
- steer ,
- stinging ,
- stint ,
- stooge ,
- stool ,
- stoop ,
- storm ,
- strapper ,
- stretch along ,
- stretch out ,
- stretchability ,
- stretchiness ,
- stretching ,
- strut ,
- stylus ,
- sublime ,
- subterfuge ,
- suck ,
- suffering ,
- sully ,
- sumptuousness ,
- superbia ,
- supererogatory ,
- superfluous ,
- supernumerary ,
- surfeit ,
- surge ,
- surplus ,
- surplusage ,
- swaggering ,
- swarm ,
- swash ,
- sweet-talk ,
- sweetening ,
- swelled ,
- swelled head ,
- swing ,
- swing music ,
- tablet ,
- taint ,
- take ,
- take a crap ,
- take a hop ,
- take a shit ,
- take in water ,
- take to ,
- take to task ,
- take to the woods ,
- takeoff ,
- talk about ,
- talk of the town ,
- talk through one's hat ,
- talking ,
- talking to ,
- tall ,
- taradiddle ,
- tarradiddle ,
- tattle ,
- taurus ,
- tear apart ,
- tearful ,
- tempestuous ,
- terrible ,
- testify ,
- theatrical ,
- theatrical performance ,
- thinning ,
- thread ,
- threatening ,
- throttle ,
- thrust ,
- tip ,
- title ,
- tittle-tattle ,
- toilet table ,
- torturesome ,
- torturing ,
- torturous ,
- tosh ,
- touch ,
- tout ,
- towering ,
- toxicant ,
- tragical ,
- tramp ,
- transcendence ,
- transcendency ,
- transport ,
- travesty ,
- treat ,
- treatment ,
- trend ,
- trick ,
- trickery ,
- troubling ,
- trounce ,
- trudge ,
- tumid ,
- tumidness ,
- tumour ,
- turd ,
- turgid ,
- turgidness ,
- turn ,
- turn tail ,
- turn to ,
- twine ,
- twist ,
- ugly ,
- uncheerful ,
- unconscionable ,
- undergarment ,
- unembellished ,
- unfold ,
- unmingled ,
- unmistakable ,
- unmixed ,
- unornamented ,
- unpatterned ,
- unreasoning ,
- unsighted ,
- unspeakable ,
- unvarnished ,
- usher ,
- usurious ,
- utter ,
- vacuity ,
- vainglorious ,
- valediction ,
- valedictory address ,
- valedictory oration ,
- vaporisation ,
- vaporization ,
- vauntingly ,
- venomous ,
- verbalise ,
- verbalize ,
- verboseness ,
- vernacular ,
- vicious ,
- visualise ,
- visualize ,
- vocabulary ,
- vogue ,
- voice communication ,
- wallow ,
- wander ,
- wangle ,
- warp ,
- waste ,
- wave ,
- waver ,
- way ,
- weave ,
- weeping ,
- wheedle ,
- whiff ,
- wild ,
- wind instrument ,
- wind up ,
- winding ,
- with child ,
- withering ,
- woeful ,
- wording ,
- work ,
- working out ,
- worrisome ,
- worrying ,
- wrangle ,
- wrap ,
- wreathe ,
- wretched ,
- yack ,
- yak ,
- yakety-yak .
- Altiloquence ,
- Babblement ,
- Bibble-babble ,
- Blague ,
- Bombastry ,
- Braggardism ,
- Double Dutch ,
- Fanfaronade ,
- Fiddledeedee ,
- Galimatias ,
- Gibble-gabble ,
- Jactancy ,
- Lexiphanicism ,
- Macrology ,
- Prelection ,
- Puffery ,
- Stultiloquence ,
- Twattle ,
- Tympany ,
- Unconformity ,
- Vapouring ,
- Vaunting ,
- Venditation ,
- absurdity ,
- act ,
- address ,
- aggrandise ,
- aggrandize ,
- amphigory ,
- amplify ,
- anticlimax ,
- apple sauce ,
- arrogant ,
- aureate ,
- babble ,
- baloney ,
- baragouin ,
- bathos ,
- big ,
- big talk ,
- bilge ,
- billow ,
- blabber ,
- blah ,
- blather ,
- blether ,
- blind ,
- bloated ,
- blow ,
- bluff ,
- bluster ,
- blustering ,
- boastfulness ,
- boasting ,
- boloney ,
- bombastic ,
- bosh ,
- bounce ,
- brag ,
- braggartism ,
- bragging ,
- buffoonery ,
- bull ,
- bullshit ,
- buncombe ,
- bunk ,
- bunkum ,
- burlesque ,
- bushwa ,
- cackle ,
- claptrap ,
- cobblers ,
- cockalorum ,
- comedy ,
- conceit ,
- cotton ,
- crake ,
- crap ,
- deception ,
- declamatory ,
- detonate ,
- dilate ,
- discourse ,
- distend ,
- dramatise ,
- dramatize ,
- drivel ,
- drool ,
- eccentricity ,
- elaboration ,
- embellish ,
- embroider ,
- embroidery ,
- empty talk ,
- enhancement ,
- enlarge ,
- enlargement ,
- exaggerate ,
- exaggeration ,
- exaltation ,
- excess ,
- expand ,
- expound ,
- extortionate ,
- extravagance ,
- eyewash ,
- falderal ,
- farce ,
- fiddle-faddle ,
- fill ,
- fish story ,
- flatulence ,
- flatulent ,
- fleshy ,
- florid ,
- flourish ,
- flowery ,
- flummery ,
- folderol ,
- frippery ,
- fudge ,
- fun ,
- fustian ,
- gab ,
- gabble ,
- gammon ,
- garbage ,
- gas ,
- gasconade ,
- gibber ,
- gibberish ,
- gobbledegook ,
- gobbledygook ,
- grandiloquent ,
- grandiose ,
- grandiosity ,
- guff ,
- harangue ,
- haughty ,
- heave ,
- heroic ,
- heroics ,
- high-flown ,
- highfalutin ,
- highfaluting ,
- histrionics ,
- hocus-pocus ,
- hogwash ,
- hooey ,
- horse feathers ,
- horseshit ,
- hot air ,
- humbug ,
- hyperbole ,
- hyperbolic ,
- idle talk ,
- inanity ,
- inflate ,
- inflated ,
- inflation ,
- jabber ,
- jabberwocky ,
- jactation ,
- jactitation ,
- laughingstock ,
- lay it on ,
- lecture ,
- long-windedness ,
- magnification ,
- magnify ,
- malarkey ,
- malarky ,
- mere words ,
- monstrosity ,
- monstrous ,
- moonshine ,
- mouth ,
- mumbo jumbo ,
- orate ,
- oratory ,
- ostentatious ,
- overemphasis ,
- overstatement ,
- pad ,
- padded ,
- palaver ,
- philippic ,
- piffle ,
- pile it on ,
- plain ,
- platitude ,
- pontificate ,
- poppycock ,
- prate ,
- prattle ,
- pretense ,
- pretensions ,
- pretentiousness ,
- prolixity ,
- prosper ,
- puff ,
- pyrotechnics ,
- rage ,
- rant ,
- ranting ,
- rave ,
- raving ,
- rhapsody ,
- ridicule ,
- rigamarole ,
- rigmarole ,
- rodomontade ,
- romanticization ,
- rot ,
- rotundity ,
- rubbish ,
- sermon ,
- sesquipedality ,
- show ,
- side ,
- skimble-skamble ,
- spout ,
- stretch ,
- stuff ,
- stuff and nonsense ,
- stuffed ,
- swagger ,
- talk big ,
- tall talk ,
- teratology ,
- theatrics ,
- thrive ,
- tirade ,
- tommyrot ,
- trash ,
- tripe ,
- truism ,
- trumpery ,
- tumidity ,
- tumor ,
- twaddle ,
- unintelligibility ,
- unmeaning ,
- vagueness ,
- vainglory ,
- vapor ,
- vaporing ,
- vapour ,
- vaunt ,
- verbiage ,
- waffle ,
- waffling ,
- wind ,
- wish-wash .
- Purism ,
- Rabidity ,
- Rampancy ,
- Rhapsodies ,
- banana ,
- boast ,
- boisterousness ,
- bravado ,
- commonplace term ,
- crowings ,
- doublespeak ,
- eloquence ,
- fancy ,
- fancy talk ,
- floridness ,
- flowery language ,
- fumings ,
- fustians ,
- gloatings ,
- grandiloquence ,
- hackneyed term ,
- idioms ,
- jive ,
- jives ,
- lexicon ,
- lingo ,
- newspeak ,
- ornateness ,
- overused term ,
- raging ,
- rantings ,
- rhetoric ,
- scribble ,
- self-glorification ,
- selfglorification ,
- senselessness ,
- shoptalk ,
- silliness ,
- slanguage ,
- stale language ,
- street talk ,
- trite language ,
- wordiness .
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How to use "Bombast" in context?
Bombast can be defined as a pompous or exuberant speech or writing. It is often used to convey an inflated opinion of oneself or one's work. A figure of speech called hyperbole is often used to convey the exaggerated nature of bombast. Bombast is often used in an attempt to make an impression or to show off one's knowledge.
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- Synonyms:
- certain.
