Associations to the word «Bombast»
Wiktionary
BOMBAST, noun. Originally, cotton, or cotton wool.
BOMBAST, noun. Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding.
BOMBAST, noun. (figuratively) High-sounding words; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking; language above the dignity of the occasion.
BOMBAST, verb. To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.
BOMBAST, adjective. High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.
Dictionary definition
BOMBAST, noun. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
Wise words
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more
value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an
idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words,
but a great deal in a few.