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.
  •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)
  • valedictory,
  • keynotes,
  • Valedictories,
  • Prelection,
  • panegyrics,
  • chalk talk,
  • panegyric.
  •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.

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.