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English Dictionary: bombastic by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bombastic
adj
  1. ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
    Synonym(s): bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bombastic \Bom*bas"tic\ (b[ocr]m*b[adot]s"t[icr]k or
      b[ucr]m*b[adot]s"t[icr]k), Bombastical \Bom*bas"tic*al\, a.
      Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated. --
      {Bom*bas"tic*al*ly}, adv.
  
               A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology. --Burke.
  
      Syn: Turgid; tumid; pompous; grandiloquent.
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