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Definitions for: Bombast
[n] pompous or pretentious talk or writing
Webster (1913) Definition: Bom"bast (b[o^]m"b[.a]st or b[u^]m"b[.a]st; 277), n.
[OF. bombace cotton, LL. bombax cotton, bombasium a doublet
of cotton; hence, padding, wadding, fustian. See
Bombazine.]
1. Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. [Obs.]
A candle with a wick of bombast. --Lupton.
2. Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing
for garments; stuffing; padding. [Obs.]
How now, my sweet creature of bombast! --Shak.
Doublets, stuffed with four, five, or six pounds of
bombast at least. --Stubbes.
3. Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language
above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.
Yet noisy bombast carefully avoid. --Dryden.
Bom"bast, a.
High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent;
bombastic.
[He] evades them with a bombast circumstance, Horribly
stuffed with epithets of war. --Shak.
Nor a tall metaphor in bombast way. --Cowley.
Bom*bast" (b[o^]m*b[.a]st" or b[u^]m*b[.a]st"), v. t.
To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate. [Obs.]
Not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed.
--Drayton.
Synonyms: blah, claptrap, fustian, rant
See Also: grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, rhetoric
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