English-Thai Dictionary

bombast

N คำพูด ยาวๆ ที่ พูด เพื่อ เอาใจ คนอื่น  pomposity kham-phud-yao-yao-ti-phud-phuea-aol-jai-kon-uen

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BOMBAST

n.Originally a stuff of soft loose texture, used to swell garments. Hence, high sounding words; an inflated style; fustian; a serious attempt, by strained description, to raise a low or familiar subject beyond its rank, which, instead of being sublime, never fails to be ridiculous.

 

BOMBAST

a.High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning.

 

BOMBASTIC

a.Swelled; high sounding; bombast.

 

BOMBASTRY

n.Swelling words without much meaning; fustian.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BOMBAST

Bom "bast, n. Etym: [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.

 

BOMBAST

BOMBAST Bom "bast, a.

 

Defn: 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.

 

BOMBAST

BOMBAST Bom *bast ", v. t.

 

Defn: To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate. [Obs. ] Not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed. Drayton.

 

BOMBASTIC; BOMBASTICAL

BOMBASTIC; BOMBASTICAL Bom *bas "tic, Bom *bas "tic *al, a.

 

Defn: Characterized by bombast; highsounding; inflated. -- Bom *bas "tic *al *ly, adv. A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology. Burke.

 

Syn. -- Turgid; tumid; pompous; grandiloquent.

 

BOMBASTRY

BOMBASTRY Bom "bast *ry, n.

 

Defn: Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian. Bombastry and buffoonery, by nature lofty and light, soar highest of all. Swift.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

bombast

bom bast |ˈbämbast ˈbɑmbæst | ▶noun high-sounding language with little meaning, used to impress people. ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (denoting raw cotton or absorbent cotton used as padding, later used figuratively ): from Old French bombace, from medieval Latin bombax, bombac-, alteration of bombyx ‘silkworm ’ (see bombazine ).

 

bombastic

bom bas tic |bämˈbastik bɑːmˈbæstɪk | ▶adjective high-sounding but with little meaning; inflated: bombastic rhetoric | bombastic music that drowned out what anyone was saying. DERIVATIVES bom bas ti cal ly |bämˈbastik (ə )lē |adverb

 

Oxford Dictionary

bombast

bombast |ˈbɒmbast | ▶noun [ mass noun ] high-sounding language with little meaning, used to impress people. ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (denoting raw cotton or cotton wool used as padding, later used figuratively ): from Old French bombace, from medieval Latin bombax, bombac-, alteration of bombyx ‘silkworm ’ (see bombazine ).

 

bombastic

bom |bas ¦tic |bɒmˈbastɪk | ▶adjective high-sounding but with little meaning; inflated: bombastic rhetoric | bombastic music that drowned out what anyone was saying. DERIVATIVES bombastically |-ˈbastɪk (ə )li |adverb

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

bombastic

bombastic adjective his bombastic speeches could send thousands into the streets: pompous, blustering, turgid, verbose, orotund, high-flown, high-sounding, overwrought, pretentious, ostentatious, grandiloquent; informal highfalutin, puffed up; rare fustian.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

bombast

bombast noun the articles lead the text into exaggeration and bombast: bluster, pomposity, ranting, rant, nonsense, empty talk, humbug, wind, blather, blether, claptrap; turgidity, verbosity, verbiage, periphrasis, euphuism, fustian; pretentiousness, affectedness, ostentation, grandiloquence, magniloquence; informal hot air, bunkum, guff, bosh; literary braggadocio, rodomontade. ANTONYMS plain speaking.

 

bombastic

bombastic adjective Howard really was the most bombastic prig: 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. ANTONYMS straightforward.

 

Duden Dictionary

Bombast

Bom bast Substantiv, maskulin abwertend , der |Bomb a st |der Bombast; Genitiv: des Bombast [e ]s englisch bombast, eigentlich = Aufgebauschtes, ursprünglich = Stoff (zum Auswattieren von Jacketts ) < altfranzösisch bombace < spätlateinisch bombax < griechisch pámbax < persisch panba h = Baumwolle Schwulst, Überladenheit, besonders hochtrabender Redeschwulst, Wortschwall

 

bombastisch

bom bas tisch Adjektiv abwertend |bomb a stisch |übertrieben viel Aufwand aufweisend, schwülstig; pompös eine bombastische Rede | etwas bombastisch ankündigen

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

bombast

bom bast /bɑ́mbæst |bɔ́m -/名詞 U ｟非難して ｠大言壮語, 大げさな言葉 .

 

bombastic

bom bas tic /bɑmbǽstɪk |bɔm -/形容詞 ｟非難して ｠(人や言葉が )大げさな .