bombast (noun)

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• bombast — ► NOUN ▪ grandiose but empty language. ORIGIN originally denoting cotton wool used as padding: from Old French bombace, from Latin bombyx silkworm …   English terms dictionary

• bombast — /ˈbɒmbæst / (say bombast) noun 1. high sounding and often insincere words; verbiage. 2. Obsolete cotton or other material used to stuff garments; padding. –adjective 3. Obsolete bombastic. {earlier bombace, from French, from Late Latin bombax… …  

• bombast — noun Etymology: Middle English bombast cotton padding, from Middle French bombace, from Medieval Latin bombac , bombax cotton, alteration of Latin bombyc , bombyx silkworm, silk, from Greek bombyk , bombyx Date: 1583 pretentious inflated speech… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• bombast — I noun affectation, boastfulness, boasting, braggery, chatter, declamation, diatribe, embellishment, empty talk, enlargement, euphemism, exaggeration, expansion, flatulence, floridness, fustian, garnishing, grandiloquence, grandiosity, harangue,… …   Law dictionary

• bombast — 1. noun a) Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. b) Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding. 2. verb To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate. 3. adjective …   Wiktionary

• bombast — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. boasting, braggadocio, grandiloquence, exaggeration. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. grandiloquence, rant, fustian, pomposity; see nonsense 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. grandiloquence, rodomontade,… …   English dictionary for students

• bombast — bom|bast [ bam,bæst ] noun uncount VERY FORMAL talk that is impressive but not sincere …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• bombast — [ bɒmbast] noun high sounding language with little meaning. Derivatives bombastic bɒm bastɪk adjective bombastically adverb Origin C16 (denoting cotton wool used as padding, later used figuratively): from OFr. bombace, from med. L. bombax, bombac …   English new terms dictionary

• bombastic — adjective bombastic language contains long important sounding words that have no real meaning: Pennant s pushy and bombastic manner bombast noun (U) …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• Bombycilla — noun waxwings • Syn: ↑genus bombycilla • Hypernyms: ↑bird genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Bombycillidae, ↑family Bombycillidae • Member Meronyms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• tympany — noun (plural nies) Etymology: Medieval Latin tympanias, from Greek, from tympanon Date: 1528 1. tympanites 2. bombast, turgidity …   New Collegiate Dictionary