bombastic
Adjective Satellite
- ostentatiously lofty in style
Adj
- showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous
- High-sounding but with little meaning.
- Inflated, overfilled.
Origin / Etymology
From bombast (“padding, stuffing”) + -ic, 18th century. Sense evolution possibly influenced by unrelated bomb and bombard; see also bombard phrase.
Synonyms
declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid, airy, arrogant, authoritarian, big-headed, biggity, blustery, boastful, bombastic, buggish, circumlocutory, cocky, conceited, diffuse, disdainful, domineering, egotistical, entitled, flatulent, flaunting, full of oneself, fustian, grandiose, hankty, haught, haughty, haut, high and mighty, high-handed, high-hat, highfalutin, hoity-toity, holier-than-thou, imperious, inflated, insolent, la-di-da, ostentatious, overbearing, overweening, palaverous, periphrastic, pleonastic, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, priggish, prolix, puffed up, rigmarole, sanctimonious, self-important, sesquipedalian, snobbish, snooty, snotty, stout, stuck up, supercilious, thrasonic, thrasonical, toploftical, toplofty, uppish, uppity, uppy, upstage, vain, verbose, wordy
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 17
bombastic: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordbombastic: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
bombastic: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary