Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BOMBASTIC

a.Swelled; high sounding; bombast.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

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

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

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.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

bombastic

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