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单词 bombastic
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Definition of bombastic in English:

bombastic

adjective bɒmˈbastɪkˌbɑmˈbæstɪk
  • High-sounding but with little meaning; inflated.

    bombastic rhetoric
    bombastic music that drowned out what anyone was saying
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The exchanges themselves are unsubtle and bombastic.
    • ‘He knows his stuff but he's extraordinarily bombastic,’ cautioned one art critic.
    • Students' formal vocabulary can be quite extensive and the more advanced sometimes produce somewhat bombastic performances.
    • Johnson's expression is manly, vigorous, grandiloquent and bombastic.
    • Given the star's history of bombastic public behavior, she may be greeted with skepticism about her intent.
    Synonyms
    pompous, blustering, ranting, blathering
    verbose, wordy, turgid, periphrastic, euphuistic, orotund, pleonastic, high-flown, high-sounding, highfalutin, lofty, overwrought, convoluted
    pretentious, affected, ostentatious, grandiloquent, magniloquent, fustian

Derivatives

  • bombastically

  • adverbbɒmˈbastɪk(ə)libɑmˈbæstək(ə)li
    • William often bombastically claimed to be the man who took the decisions.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Predictably, he bombastically announced yesterday: ‘We have nothing to hide.’
      • There is an openly commercial component, often playing on nationalist sentiments and pursuing bombastically epic themes.
      • This law of reversals is called, too, more bombastically, ‘the swing of the pendulum.’
      • People used to laugh when the Chancellor bombastically promised to end boom and bust: it was once the natural British economic weather.

Rhymes

drastic, dynastic, ecclesiastic, elastic, encomiastic, enthusiastic, fantastic, gymnastic, iconoclastic, mastic, monastic, neoplastic, orgastic, orgiastic, periphrastic, plastic, pleonastic, sarcastic, scholastic, scholiastic

Definition of bombastic in US English:

bombastic

adjectiveˌbämˈbastikˌbɑmˈbæstɪk
  • High-sounding but with little meaning; inflated.

    bombastic rhetoric
    bombastic music that drowned out what anyone was saying
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Students' formal vocabulary can be quite extensive and the more advanced sometimes produce somewhat bombastic performances.
    • Johnson's expression is manly, vigorous, grandiloquent and bombastic.
    • The exchanges themselves are unsubtle and bombastic.
    • Given the star's history of bombastic public behavior, she may be greeted with skepticism about her intent.
    • ‘He knows his stuff but he's extraordinarily bombastic,’ cautioned one art critic.
    Synonyms
    pompous, blustering, ranting, blathering
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